Rule to live by: if it's white, greasy or sweet, you can't eat it--or in your case: salty.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, February 04, 2012 at 19:32:21 (MST)
Hi gang! I was attending a retreat for retired priest last week and passed out at breakfast on Friday! My cardiologist said that I had too much salt and said I better live on my Salt Free diet! I's really simple, "if it taste good, I can' eat it" I lost two seminary biddies last week, So I think I better follow it!!!!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Saturday, February 04, 2012 at 14:18:26 (MST)
HAPPY (three day's late) BIRTHDAY Marshall. You must be 75? I think Rickey is the only one of our class mates older that you. Hope I can make my 75th and shoot my age a little later.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Friday, February 03, 2012 at 11:36:09 (MST)
Happy Birthday, Marshall! Life has its ups and downs! Downs: Johnny's contract is not being renewed at KMIR6 t.v. station! and UPs: Stephen's new 'Zachary' House, being built in S. Carolina, is going to be featured in the New York Times.
Brenda
Baton Rouge, Louisiana USA - Wednesday, February 01, 2012 at 14:42:16 (MST)
"HAPPY (one day late) BIRTHDAY" Marshall
larry m
USA - Wednesday, February 01, 2012 at 13:28:05 (MST)
Marshall, Fr. Howard Hall died yesterday and will be buried Saturday at the Cathedral.
Brenda
Baton Rouge, Louisiana USA - Wednesday, February 01, 2012 at 08:47:55 (MST)
We won't be there either, O.P. Maybe we'll be in our new house by then!! They are building six of them at the same time, even though the others aren't sold. By the way, Bill is in Shreveport filming another movie today. I forget the name of it and there is a movie coming to the theaters that he's in right now also. Guess I should find out the names before I mention it. He's been in the t.v. series 'Treme', which is filmed in New Orleans.
Brenda
USA - Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 20:37:25 (MST)
O.P. - Don't plan on us for the cruise. I don't like being on water. Hope your New Year is
going well. Patsy
Patsy Franques
USA - Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 09:41:37 (MST)
It's a definite maybe for the Reaux's.
Gerald Reaux <Ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Monday, January 23, 2012 at 16:14:00 (MST)
It's a definite maybe for the Reaux's.
Gerald Reaux <Ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Monday, January 23, 2012 at 16:14:00 (MST)
Ok, folks, we are getting the urge for a group cruise. We haven't been on a cruise for a couple of years. Anyone else interested in a CC55, or maybe a "Cathedral/Carmel any year" Cruise from New Orleans? Lets hear it. Don't be afraid to discuss, even if you are not committing to it right now (I'm talking to Gerald, who doesn't like to travel). Lets bat it around as we used to say.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
ELKRIDGE, MD USA - Monday, January 23, 2012 at 08:09:46 (MST)
I spoke to JAN Judice yesterday and she said the Julian is not doing well at all. He is in the hospital and they are doing test on him. She said that he is not seeing anybody until next week because he is so week. I'll try and go next week and let ya'll know how he is.
Rickey
USA - Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 19:54:44 (MST)
Great picture, Larry! Beautiful family! The name of the movie that Bill is in is: "Dog Fight." Don't know anything about a release date. Bill plays a U.S. Senator.
Brenda
Baton Rouge, Louisiana USA - Friday, January 13, 2012 at 12:12:58 (MST)
Until last night I hadn't seen a LSU shirt or hat anywhere. Last night at Deano's I saw a man with a t-shirt. I'll bet Miles has a lot of answers for the Alumni. Nobody I spoke to can't figure out what happened. From the beginning the whole team didn't have any spirit. It reminded me of the LSU =Ole Miss game when Billy Cannon played for the second time in the Sugar Bowl. It was the same kind of game. Them team didn't like Billy Cannon because I heard he made the comment that he didn't need the team blocking for him. At least that is what I heard. I bet the money boys want answers also. Anyway the Ragin Cajuns can raise their head this time. Yesterday their game was picked at the number 1 bowl game on TV. Oklahoama State and Oregon was number one. Way to go Cajuns!!!!!!
Rickey
USA - Friday, January 13, 2012 at 07:13:37 (MST)
Me too, Patsy, I want to see the movie. Wow, just look at all those family pictures on our web page! It's so hard to get ALL of my children, grandchildren and great grandchildren together now. I wonder if they will ever all be together again..
Doris
USA - Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 10:28:46 (MST)
Brenda, saw the picture of Bill Martin with John Lithgow and Dan Aykroyd. Will you and John get to go to the premiere? Does the movie have a name yet. I want to be sure and see it.
Patsy
USA - Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 22:19:07 (MST)
I was so happy to see all the new pictures. What BEAUTIFUL families you all have, wow!! We just came back from Florida. We added yet another to our family. My Grandson, Pennye's son, got married Sat. It was a beautiful wedding with a beautiful bride. Such a full week-end. Thurs. - rehearsal supper. Fri. our great grand daughter's first birthday. Sat. the big wedding. We came home to celebrate our little 8 yr old's birthday over here. I was exhausted. But happy. Kind of glad all the holidays and wedding is over. Now back to the routine. Brenda, I know you are going to be busy in the next few weeks. Send pictures when you are moved in.
Doris
USA - Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 20:28:17 (MST)
Yes Brenda all 17 of us. My oldest son has twins (see if you can identify them), a girl and a boy with their last being a girl. My second son has two boys and two girls (the youngest in the pic). My daughter has a boy and a girl for a total of 9 plus 8 adults. I know you have a larger family but I can't remember how many.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Monday, January 09, 2012 at 19:44:44 (MST)
Is that everyone, Gerald? I can't tell who's who, but they are also very good looking!
Brenda
Baton Rouge, Louisiana USA - Monday, January 09, 2012 at 19:13:55 (MST)
Nice pics of some/photoshopped people in your families. I just sent O.P. our family gathering at Christmas and hope he posts it when he has time.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Saturday, January 07, 2012 at 12:01:40 (MST)
Almost didn't notice the new Christmas pictures of Suzanne's and O.P.'s lovely families. The class of '55 surely added a lot of beautiful people to this world! I also came across the CathedralCarmel55's 50th Reunion C.D. today while going through tons of stuff. I enjoyed it so much (even though I was supposed to be packing for the big move). Sad to see Avis, Betty and June laughing and smiling. I know there are some men missing now also. Not such a good day today. I had to bring Sammy in for his annual checkup. $304 later, I am thinking of not bringing Theodore for a while!
Brenda
Baton Rouge, Louisiana USA - Thursday, January 05, 2012 at 19:13:45 (MST)
Happy New Year, everyone! I know we're mostly all retired, but if you happen to know of anyone who can fill the following temporary position, please call Cathedral-Carmel School. I know Sister Juliana would never recommend me for this position -- algebra and geometry were far from being my best subjects.
Temporary Replacement for Algrebra Teacher Needed at Cathedral-Carmel School
Mrs. Pat Fugler, our Algebra I teacher, recently had hip surgery and will be recovering until after the Mardi Gras holidays. If you or anyone you know would be able and willing to step in and take her class until she returns, please contact the school immediately. We are looking for someone who is certified to teach middle school math for one (1) hour per day beginning at 10:00 a.m. Thank you!
Henrietta
USA - Wednesday, January 04, 2012 at 14:04:35 (MST)
He sure was. I got an I phone too. That takes some learning.
Suzanne
USA - Wednesday, January 04, 2012 at 06:59:46 (MST)
Santa Clause must have been good to you this year Suzanne!
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Tuesday, January 03, 2012 at 11:58:34 (MST)
Glad to be back. I just got a new computer
Suzanne <Suzdbernard@cox.net>
Lafayette, La USA - Monday, January 02, 2012 at 20:18:02 (MST)
Nice seeing everyone at the Mini Class Reunion...thanks for getting it together Rickey. Nice seeing Red,Earl Arnold, and Jane there....as well as Monique, Rays daughter...I don't think I've see her since her Baptism!!!! I guess everyone heard about Charlie Landry's death?....Sid Landry's brother..the wreck happened near my sister's condo...St. Mary and W.Congress...we passed by right after it happened and didn't know it as Charly...he always prided himself in NOT wearing seat belts.....RIP
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Monday, January 02, 2012 at 11:11:23 (MST)
Nice seeing everyone at the Mini Class Reunion...thanks for getting it together Rickey. Nice seeing Red,Earl Arnold, and Jane there....as well as Monique, Rays daughter...I don't think I've see her since her Baptism!!!! I guess everyone heard about Charlie Landry's death?....Sid Landry's brother..the wreck happened near my sister's condo...St. Mary and W.Congress...we passed by right after it happened and didn't know it as Charly...he always prided himself in NOT wearing seat belts.....RIP
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Monday, January 02, 2012 at 11:11:01 (MST)
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!!!!!!! Patsy & Howard
Patsy Franques
USA - Sunday, January 01, 2012 at 14:31:08 (MST)
Happy New Year EVERYONE. Hope it is a happy, healthy and prosperous one for all of you. Brenda I'm excited for you. Moving can be a pain, but it is exciting also, to be in a new house. I was so excited to be living here with my children when we moved. I still feel so luck to be near my boys and their children. Mitch and his family came over tonite and we sat around the table with a glass of wine and talked about old times. So much fun. Matt stayed to spend the night. There is a big TV in the room he sleeps in over here and not at his house, so he feels special when he comes. So do the others. No TV in the bedrooms at their house.
Doris
USA - Saturday, December 31, 2011 at 19:49:48 (MST)
Thanks for all of the information, Doris. Too bad that medicine is not given any more. For now, I'm relatively pain free! Had a huge garage sale today at Margaret's to get rid of everything that's been in our attic forever. Later, we'll have a sale here when we know what we can't bring to our new house. Hope all of you have a wonderful new year in 2012!and Happy New Year tonight!
Brenda
USA - Saturday, December 31, 2011 at 16:20:25 (MST)
Yes, Brenda, I have had sciatica. It was caused from a herniated disc. Saw a neuroligist and he gave me papyia injection, the procedure was called "Chemonucleolysis". It worked for me. The enzyme of the papyia plant shrinks the disc and thus the pressure on the nerve was relieved. But I found out soon after, that they quit doing it because it caused death in some patients. My Angel was taking care of me, I'm sure. I know the pain. When you are sitting you can't stand and when you are standing you can't sit without a lot of pain. My brother gets it often but he said the pain finally subsides. He has one hip higher than the other thus putting pressure on the sciatica nerve.
Doris
USA - Friday, December 30, 2011 at 20:45:59 (MST)
Well, it's final! We're moving into a much smaller place and we have been so busy getting ready for the move that I didn't even put up a tree or any decorations. I appreciated all of the Christmas cards I received, but I didn't send any. Our new place is still being built and the projected date for the move is the middle of February. I keep going by and nothing's been done since last week. It's exciting and rather sad. We built this house in 1966 and raised our 5 children in it. We love our neighbors and the neighborhood, but John is tired of yard work and maintenance. By the way, have any of you ever suffered with Siatica? It's a really painful thing with pains shooting down your leg. I had it so bad last week that I almost gave up thinking that I would ever feel normal again. Finally, with pain medicine, it is clearing up and I'm hopeful that I can manage it. Hope none of you ever get it!
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, December 28, 2011 at 19:16:49 (MST)
Doris your grand daughter is cute as a bug. Her personality comes through in all her pictures. Good to hear from you Red. You, Ray, Marshall, Howard and Mike were close most of your lives. It's good to have friendships like that especially when you get our age.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Monday, December 26, 2011 at 08:58:32 (MST)
O.P told me about this site and it was good to read the many comments left by classmates of Cathedral Carmel 1955 class. . I have seen names I had not seen for 45-50 years. We all recently mourned the passing of Ray Domengeaux. Ray was my "best man" at my wedding, incidentally my first and only. At his funeral I was surprised to learn that Pat Roy had also died.
It was good seeing O.P. Gerald !Carrol,Kearney,Kirk, Howard, Patsy,Rickey, Roland Trahan, Darrell, and several others. Darrell knows more Lafayette news then I do and I live here and he is in Baton Rouge.
Keep the faith,if you should have it.
Best regards of the season.
Roland "Red" LeBlanc
Jacrolandleblanc <jackleblancsr@gmail.com>
lafayette, la. USA - Saturday, December 24, 2011 at 12:09:39 (MST)
I wanted to share our Christmas photos with you all. Here is a link to my Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/op-ditch/sets/72157628548953905/
I'm still working on the videos.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
ELKRIDGE, MD USA - Saturday, December 24, 2011 at 09:00:00 (MST)
Betty Sunday is in my thoughts today. It is the 4th anniversary of her death. I still miss her
and wish every day that she was still here.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF YOU!
Patsy
Patsy Franques
USA - Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 10:02:34 (MST)
Marshall, Fr. Dugas might be nearing the end, suffering the last stages of Parkinson's. I attended my blind priest friend's 45th anniversary mass last night and it was really something. His dog was with him the whole time and to see how that dog behaves is really something also. The most emotional part of the mass was to see father struggling with the new translation, after 40 years of saying mass one way and having it completely memorized. I had recorded all of the parts he had to memorize and I'm sure he thought he had memorized all of it. Saying it at this special mass, with all of the pressure was too much and he couldn't remember much of it. Another priest finally stood beside him and read the parts very quietly and he repeated them. He just smiled, but I know he was disappointed. It was a beautiful experience altogether!
Brenda
USA - Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 07:44:18 (MST)
In the obits of the local paper. Nick Sabin died and he went to heaven and met with
God. God gave Nick an nice little two bed room house with a faded Alabama banner hanging from the front porch. God told Nick that he was lucky. Not too many people go their own house. Nick thanked God and looked around, an on the hill there was large three story house with marble columns and gold fixtures glinting in the sun light. It had LSU banners hanging from between all of the columns. Nick asked God what Les Miles had done to merit such a home and God told him “That’s not Les Miles house, it is mine.”
J. J. Erny <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
Larose, La USA - Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 14:47:30 (MST)
"Your friends stab you in the front. " Oscar Wild ???
J. J. Erny <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
Larose, La USA - Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 04:16:21 (MST)
Precious, Doris!
Marshall <Larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 04:03:46 (MST)
Dors, if those precious pictures of Jaden don't put me in a Christmas mood, nothing will. About the Engagement Ceremony, I do remember them. Don't remember why we didn't have one. About the Newman Club, I remember really wanting Stephen to join when he was at Texas A & M because he was so young and away from home. It would have given him a home away from home, but no dice! Finally, our granddaughter, Lauren, is all involved with the Catholic group at Brown University--thank heavens. In her freshman year, Katrina hit and she instigated a group of them to go to N.O. to volunteer right after. My best memories of SLI are of the Newman Club and Msgr. Sigur and Fr. Spyrer.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, December 10, 2011 at 07:38:40 (MST)
I don’t recall any Solemn Engagement Ceremony – was that affiliated with the Our Lady of Wisdom Pre-Cana conference program we attended? Our granddaughter, in recent years, graduated from ULL’s nursing school. ULL differs so much from our 1950's SLI – sometimes sadly, it’s a whole new generation. Her group seemed to minimize involvement in Newman Club and I don’t think Newman Club has the Thursday night meetings/dances we had. Driving down St. Mary Blvd. between classes, I’ve noted that too many students exchanging classes seem to be on cellphones, oblivious to other students walking alongside them. I guess “student social life” has taken on a new meaning.
Henrietta
USA - Friday, December 09, 2011 at 21:08:40 (MST)
No I don't remember your event, but we had our engagement blessed by Father Calais at St. John's Cathedral and he has since told us that was the only one he has done during his priesthood.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Thursday, December 08, 2011 at 14:40:25 (MST)
MEMORY CHALLENGE. Shirley just told me, after seeing the photo of the ULL Chapel photo on their newsletter, that we had our Solemn Engagement Ceremony in that Chapel. I drew a blank, total blank. The only event similar that I can remember is I think I received some kind of Indulgence (Plenary maybe, not sure) for being awarded something in the Newman Club. So I can't remember our "Solemn Engagement Ceremony." Does anyone remember it also, as Shirley does? Does anyone have any photos of that event? Did they even have cameras then.... :-)
ALSO: While I'm talking about Our Lady of Wisdom and the "Catholic Center" does anyone else notice that they seem to minimize the involvement of the "Newman Club?" Very little mention of the Newman Club.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Elkridge, MD USA - Thursday, December 08, 2011 at 11:22:54 (MST)
J.J. I agree with you. Paul’s Mom and I took Amtrak to Atlanta to visit my son Mike at GA Tech. I remembered with great nostalgia, Pullman train trips in the 1940's to visit my Grandma in Massachusetts, so Lou and I thought going by train would be fun. For $3 less than airfare, this describes our trip: Our car was too cold on the way over. While going to the club car to get a warm cup of coffee, passing through a car full of Southern Baptists on convention, the train jolted and caused me to land on top of a sleeping black man, to his surprise and mine. Then on the return trip, the AC went out in the dining car when we were having lunch causing the temp to be around 110 degrees. Returning to our seats in our un-air-conditioned car, a gentleman nearby had the audacity to remove his shoes. Think we’ll stay with Delta and Continental.
Henrietta
USA - Sunday, December 04, 2011 at 21:21:10 (MST)
Lita and I have been traveling.
We spent Thanksgiving with our daughter in DC. It was nice. They have a very large house in Alex that three cats allow them to stay in.
We took the train to DC. WE thought that it would be like the trains in Europe and England. A mistake. We booked a sleeper and we could not sleep. We rocked and rolled along hard dumpy tracts. The fare was about the same as frist class by air to DC. The only advantage is that you have you own bathroom. Never on the train again.
J. J. Erny <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
Larose, La USA - Friday, December 02, 2011 at 09:46:36 (MST)
Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day, as we did with family being together and having a traditional Thanksgiving Day dinner. I just opened an email from the CCS Foundation, suggesting purchase of commemorative bricks for the Cathedral-Carmel school ground. It reads:
“Great gift idea just in time for the Holidays!!!
CLICK
HERE to purchase your $100 brick or visit www.cathedralcarmel.com for
further details!
Give the one you love a gift that will Last Forever.”
Henrietta
USA - Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 19:37:44 (MST)
Thanks to O.P. we were able to face time on my new Iphone 4S today. It is something I use to read about in the Dick Tracy comic books. Unbelievable quality and connectivity. I suppose this will be the next version of Skyping. What will they come up with next? A computer chip in the brain?
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Sunday, November 27, 2011 at 15:06:34 (MST)
Same from Cajun Country.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Thursday, November 24, 2011 at 10:14:36 (MST)
Hope all of you enjoy a wonderful Thanksgiving Day tomorrow. We all have so much to be thankful for!
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 18:07:00 (MST)
All four marriages in our immediate family have taken place in that beautiful Church. So many memories to last a lifetime. Thanks for sharing.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 15:13:25 (MST)
Congratulations, Shirley! Great photograph!
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 20:07:32 (MST)
Makes us feel old, huh, Brenda. You and I are together with both of our birthdays in Feb.
Doris
USA - Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 16:03:11 (MST)
Someone just sent me a copy of FACE magazine, that I think is a Lafayette publication. My niece, Jill Johnson-Meaux's picture is on the cover and a lot of coverage is inside. She is married to my nephew Mark Meaux, Floyd's son. She's the new director of Acadiana Outreach Center. I'm very proud of her and her life story gives hope to women in difficult situations.
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 15:33:10 (MST)
Doris and Brenda thanks for the birthday wishes. So far today has been a great day!!!!!!
Patsy Frannques
Iafayette, La.. USA - Monday, November 14, 2011 at 13:21:45 (MST)
Imagine, Patsy is just turning 74! She and O.P. barely made it into the class of '55. I think Janet might be even younger. Happy Birthday, Patsy!
Brenda
USA - Monday, November 14, 2011 at 12:24:56 (MST)
Happy Birthday to Patsy, tomorrow, Mon. Nov. 14. Hope you have a good one girl..
Doris
USA - Sunday, November 13, 2011 at 18:32:58 (MST)
Thanks for the pictures, looks like you guys had fun. I can only recognize a few of the guys.
Doris
USA - Saturday, November 12, 2011 at 16:18:50 (MST)
All of the class of '55 and their wives are looking good!!
Brenda
USA - Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 19:36:08 (MST)
Gerald, on Facebook, search for Lafayette Memories. There are hundreds of entries of memories from people. They seem a little younger than we are, but, if you go back far enough, you'll see memories of the time before S. College extended across Johnston St. Those are the times I remember.
Brenda
USA - Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 17:30:09 (MST)
Nope, I don't remember that either Brenda. I need to check out that site. Could you give me the path?
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 14:06:04 (MST)
Anyone remember getting a two-pack Chicklet gum at the Guaranty Bank drive thru? That was a question asked on the Lafayette Memories site on Facebook. Every time I look at that site, I think about all of you. I don't remember getting the gum, but maybe you might remember.
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 19:00:46 (MST)
O.K. I'll be waiting for pictures.
Doris
USA - Monday, October 17, 2011 at 19:09:14 (MST)
Patsy said that we had 32 in our class and I think she was right.
Brenda
USA - Monday, October 17, 2011 at 13:21:17 (MST)
Doris you remind me of O.P. He always needs pictures so my camera is always with me for those occasions. Brenda we had 39 in our class and 10 have passed. Don't know why we had more than you girls. 1937 must have been a better boy year around here.
ggrpsr@aol.com
Lafayette, La USA - Sunday, October 16, 2011 at 07:35:53 (MST)
Doris, there were a lot of pictures taken, but I don't know whose cameras were used. None of them seemed to be digital cameras so the photos would have to be developed. Wish I had thought to bring my camera.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, October 15, 2011 at 07:56:59 (MST)
Brenda, no one took pictures? I don't know who Betty Barras is. She must have been a USL friend of Janet's.
Doris
USA - Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 12:22:25 (MST)
I should have mentioned that Cile and Minette had met us the week before as someone had mistakenly thought that Janet was coming last week and about 8 of us met then. Some of those couldn't return this week. By the way, Betty's last name is Barras. She was Sen. Barras' wife. Gerald, there were 33 in our class and we have lost 4 of them.
Brenda
USA - Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 09:02:26 (MST)
10 classmates is not bad Brenda. How many were in your class?
We will have a mini reunion on the 29th of December at the Hut for Marshall's annual Christmas visit.
I will be calling our Classmates with details later this year.
ggrpsr@aol.com <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 08:17:25 (MST)
Doris, we did have a lovely time today. There were: Maugie, Patsy, Jeanette, Janet, Jackie, Suzanne, Carleen, Henrietta, me and someone that everyone knew named Betty. I can't remember her last name. I'll find out.
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 18:07:38 (MST)
Thanks for the compliments. Jared is a lucky guy to have such beautiful girls. Oh Brenda I so wish I could be there next Tues. Please tell Janet how much I would have loved seeing her. Y'all have a good time.
Doris
USA - Monday, October 10, 2011 at 15:58:38 (MST)
Beautiful girls Doris!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
venice, FL USA - Monday, October 10, 2011 at 02:52:48 (MST)
Love the picture, Doris. They are both beautiful! J.J., you didn't need any more reminders to walk the straight and narrow. I think you have had enough of them. Hope you recover quickly!
Brenda
USA - Sunday, October 09, 2011 at 08:06:26 (MST)
In to the hospital with kidney stones. Out with a stint and a taste of the white rabbit. God gave us kidney stones so that we would have a taste of hell and behave.
J. J.
USA - Saturday, October 08, 2011 at 10:22:04 (MST)
Janet is coming to Lafayette next Tuesday and classmates are meeting at Don's Hut for lunch. Spread the word.
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 at 18:31:53 (MST)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my oldest friend. First grade until now. I wish Sarah Palin would announce to give him a bonus birthday gift?
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
Lafayette, La USA - Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 10:55:29 (MST)
Sorry, I haven't checked this website in a while. Well we had three days of a little rain. Hopefully it will diminish the fires. But the weather man said it's like taking a half of a glass of water and trying to fill a swimming pool. We need a LOT more rain. Brenda, what I did was take all our important papers and made a copy for the computer. Then I put them all in a safety deposit box in the bank. My sons said if we should have to leave, take our pills first, then unplug our little back up drive we have for the cumputer and take that. Mitch said just unplug it from the computer and take the cables and all. He has it set that every night the computer backs up everything we did that day onto the back up devise. So our pictures and finances and everything is on that.
Doris
USA - Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 06:01:20 (MST)
Some of may remember him.George Magnon passed away yesterday.
Larry Miller
USA - Monday, September 19, 2011 at 20:38:24 (MST)
By the way, Big Max is now a freshman in high school and wasn't planning to play football. The coach saw him and asked him to come out. He missed all summer practices and the fitness regimen, but he agreed to go out. I don't think we'll ever see him play college ball and he may never get off the bench this year. At least his size might scare a few opponents. Max is in the LSU shirt in the beach family picture.
Brenda
USA - Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 19:20:44 (MST)
Doris, is anything better over there or worse? My sister, Judy, is packing up because she lives in Canyon Lake and there have been fires around there. How terrible!! I started thinking about what we would want to take out of here. When you think of it, where do you start? important papers, and then what???
Brenda
USA - Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 10:04:36 (MST)
Just received the following from the Cathedral-Carmel Alumni Foundation, FYI:
Dear Alums & Class Liaisons,
Please read below the ULL e-newsletter featuring Joe Stewart, CCHS 1971 and UL Alum. Joe has been named by ULL as the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award! Joe will be recognized during the Beaux Arts Ball on Wednesday, October 12th. The theme is “soap operas.” Please mark your calendar and forward to all your classmates!!!
Henrietta
USA - Friday, September 09, 2011 at 04:56:57 (MST)
Yes, like over here. A fire started just north of the Woodlands in Magnolia this afternoon. We can see the smoke in the air and certainly smell it. Please remember us Texans in your prayers. We have so many dead trees in the Woodlands it would go up in a blaze in no time at all.
Doris
USA - Monday, September 05, 2011 at 20:05:44 (MST)
Thank you, Rickey. Looks like the 'hurricane' was headed for Lafayette and then for Baton Rouge. We got a lot of rain, but not too much wind. It surely feels better to have that large oak tree out of our yard before these storms. I wish some of this water could go to places that really need it!
Brenda
USA - Saturday, September 03, 2011 at 12:30:08 (MST)
Brenda, My what a beautiful family and so many. I thought I spoiled Barbara, but looks like John does much better with you. I checked with OP and he and Shirley took the storm in very well in fact Shirley said she slept through the storm. Their daughter Karen was in the bad part of the storm but no damage to their house. They have a son living in Jacksonville NC but he is alright also. I thought I had a lot of grandkids but you and John take the prize. Mine are from combined famlies. Life will get better for you and John. Take care and God Bless.
Rickey
USA - Monday, August 29, 2011 at 13:59:11 (MST)
O.P. has four children and we have three. However one of his sons is not married and we both have sons that have four children so we are pretty close to the same in total number. I skyped with him a week ago last Sunday for a little while. He stays busy now a days.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Monday, August 29, 2011 at 12:39:28 (MST)
Thank you, Gerald. Doris, you and Charles must really have been young when you married to have such a family and all of the great grandchildren! Gerald, don't you and O.P. each have four children? That surely isn't a small family! Has anyone heard from O.P.?
Brenda
USA - Monday, August 29, 2011 at 05:55:13 (MST)
Thanks, Gerald. It looks like my grandchildren will keep extending the family even more. Our grandson over here, who is 29, has already bought a big 5 bedroom house in anticipation of a large family. They have 2 little girls. one 2yrs. and one 5 months. Then with 2 more weddings this coming year. I look for even more great grandchildren in the future.
Doris
USA - Sunday, August 28, 2011 at 19:51:54 (MST)
Congratulations Doris and Brenda for those large families. You Mount Carmel girls must have been more Catholic that us boys, because I can't think of anyone that can compete with you all. I believe O.P. and I are about even but maybe Rickey has us beat?
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Sunday, August 28, 2011 at 16:23:21 (MST)
What would the news do without 24 hour coverage of something? Anyway, I think Mary Elizabeth lives in N. Carolina, which is getting hit right now. O.P. and Shirley are next, but I'm sure he is well prepared and won't even lose his internet access!
Brenda
USA - Saturday, August 27, 2011 at 09:20:23 (MST)
Brenda, you are probably right. I guess either Mary and Boring or Maugie and Pat have more than we do. Because they both had more children than we did. But I guess we'll not know, because they don't write on this webpage. I wonder if they read it. It would be interesting to know how many is in their families.
Doris
USA - Saturday, August 27, 2011 at 09:08:40 (MST)
Whew, Brenda I was wondering if John was that old. Couldn't be! By the way we have 31 in our family. We have 5 children and their spouses. 11 grandchildren and 3 are married with 2 engaged to be married, so we count them in,so that makes 5 grandchildren spouses,and 5 great grandchildren. It has gotten to a point where we can't ever get them all together at one time. I think we might take the prize for the most now. That is why we have no family picture. The last picture we took all together was two years ago before the last three babies and I think 2 spouses. I can't keep up.
Doris
USA - Saturday, August 27, 2011 at 08:39:28 (MST)
I can't believe I said that John is 89!!! He is 79!! I'm loosing what little brains that I had!!!
Brenda
USA - Saturday, August 27, 2011 at 07:48:53 (MST)
Pat and I just read your post and are amazed about your husband's status in life.
We both try to exercise and stay in shape but he is something else. Lately I have been working 30 to 40 hours a week and really enjoying it. But I shall not complain after what I just read about him.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Saturday, August 27, 2011 at 07:34:29 (MST)
I should introduce you to that 'old man'. He wakes up very early, exercises for at least an hour, mows the grass or edges the lawn, then relaxes with his Ipod, reading. He takes care of a few old people by doing their grocery shopping, bringing them to their appointments, and visiting with them in nursing homes. He is an intellectual and perpetual student of healthy living. He put five kids through college, graduate schools, and even medical school. He now has a size 32" waist because he is so strict with his exercise and eating. I almost forgot, he is a gourmet cook and has perfected some healthy gourmet food--not easy. I am a completely pampered wife and hope we have a very long, healthy life ahead of us. By the way, he is 89 years old.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, August 27, 2011 at 06:45:51 (MST)
Who's that old man with you in the picture Brenda? Ha! Beautiful family! May you have many more years together! LU
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Saturday, August 27, 2011 at 01:39:28 (MST)
Thank you everyone for your kind comments! There is actually one missing, Gerald. Stephen's wife couldn't be there as she couldn't get off the week everyone else could get off. I'll bet Mary and Bo Domingue and maybe Maugie and Pat have more descendants than we have. We just had 5 children and spouses and 11 grandchildren and they each had 7 children, if I remember correctly. The fortunate thing is that everyone gets along so well. It was a lovely, peaceful week. Wish we could do it every year.
Brenda
USA - Friday, August 26, 2011 at 18:23:08 (MST)
Wow! What a beautiful family Brenda. 22 and counting, assuming everyone was there, is 5 more than us. I wonder if anyone else in our classes can top that?
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Friday, August 26, 2011 at 17:38:52 (MST)
Get crackers, peanut butter, cheese spread cans that open without can opener. Tuna, you know stuff like that. That is if you have an electric stove. We had an electric stove when we had the ice storm in 1997 and were without electricity. Had to make coffee and cook what we could on our camp stove. Luckily we had fuel for it. Anyway these are just a few of the things I can think of. Oh LOTS of bottled water.
Doris
USA - Friday, August 26, 2011 at 09:43:46 (MST)
Doris is right, it's the aftermath of the hurricane that is so hard to bear. I hope it's not as hot as it would be down here without air condition! One of the best things is to have some way to read at night! I found a battery powered light that saved me. We cook on the bar-b-que pit and share with neighbors. A small generator to run a bedroom a.c. would help a lot. Kathleen has a large generator that runs their whole house and so she provided dinner every night for her extended family. We were so grateful to be out of the heat and eating well.
Brenda
USA - Friday, August 26, 2011 at 06:46:29 (MST)
Great Picture Brenda. What a wonderful way to celebrate your anniversary. Be safe up there O.P and Shirley. I'm sure you remember what to do. It's the aftermath of the hurricane that is so bad. No electricity, no phone, have lots of batteries ready. We were without electricity for a week after Ike. Had to cook everything that was in the freezer. We had a generator in the family that traveled from one house to another on the back of a truck so the food in the fridge wouldn't go bad.
Doris
USA - Friday, August 26, 2011 at 05:38:04 (MST)
Don't miss Brenda & John's family picture for their 50th Wedding Anniversary.
PS: We're all OK up here in earthquake land and hunkered down for the 'cane.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
ELKRIDGE, MD USA - Friday, August 26, 2011 at 02:24:20 (MST)
O.P. and Shirley hope you guys don't get hit too hard by the hurricane! An earthquake and a hurricane in less than a week! You think weather follows you?
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Friday, August 26, 2011 at 01:58:26 (MST)
What a Cutie Pie. Rickey he is so cute..
Doris
USA - Monday, August 22, 2011 at 19:24:40 (MST)
Darling baby, Ricky!
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USA - Monday, August 22, 2011 at 14:48:34 (MST)
YEs, Pete answered my email, so that is correct.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Elkridge, MD USA - Saturday, August 20, 2011 at 09:03:26 (MST)
OP I think that is his address. I have his telephone number if you want it. Just let me know.
Rickey
USA - Friday, August 19, 2011 at 20:59:41 (MST)
Does anyone know if this is still Pete Gerac's email address? peteg@knology.net
I have some interesting model train information to pass to him.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
ELKRIDGE, MD USA - Friday, August 19, 2011 at 03:46:09 (MST)
Last time we visited with Don I asked him what size shoe he wore and he told me he wore a size 15? I knew he had a big foot but not that big? Pat Pastor told me an interesting story pertaining to all the Deshotel boys.
They all boxed at one time or another and they all had big feet which prevented them from ever being knocked down he said! I believe it and they were tough on top of that but Don was the one with the big heart.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 10:58:07 (MST)
You look tough Don!!!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Monday, August 08, 2011 at 01:57:42 (MST)
So sorry to hear about Ray. I couldn't write before because I forgot the ID and Password. I had to ask Brenda. I know passwords are necessary, but I hate them I have so many, I forget which one is for what.
Doris
USA - Sunday, August 07, 2011 at 15:23:51 (MST)
Ray's passing was the 12th in our class of 38. RIP to all who have gone before us.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Thursday, August 04, 2011 at 06:28:47 (MST)
Ray's Obituary is here in the Advertiser: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theadvertiser/obituary.aspx?n=ray-domengeaux&pid=152864221&fhid=10577 Or go to www.delhommefuneralhome.com
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
ELKRIDGE, MD USA - Thursday, August 04, 2011 at 05:36:55 (MST)
Ray's funeral will be at Delhomme Funeral Home on Bertrand Dr. in Lafayette at 10:00 a.m. Saturday,
August 6. Visiting hours: 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. on Friday, August 5th and Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to
time of funeral. (10:00 a.m.)
Patsy Franques
Lafayette , La. USA - Wednesday, August 03, 2011 at 13:58:45 (MST)
Just got a call from Roland Trahan. Ray's time with us is over. Pray for the repose of his soul. RIP
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Tuesday, August 02, 2011 at 18:41:36 (MST)
Just spoke to Jane. Ray is still hangging in there. Shows to go you that only GOD decides when someone dies!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Monday, August 01, 2011 at 13:21:56 (MST)
It is sobering to think of a friend 'waiting patiently for Him;'on his way to knowing what we all wish to know, and to be beyond sorrow and pain. My prayers are for Jane and his family.
Brenda
USA - Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 14:41:11 (MST)
Just got a call from Jane. Hospice says that Ray has 1 to 3 days to live.
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 08:44:13 (MST)
Ray is resting on Morphine at hospice. If anyone wants to talk to Jane, her cell phone number is: 225-304-2783. He is in the hands of God.
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Tuesday, July 26, 2011 at 10:07:52 (MST)
Sorry to hear about Ray. Roland has always been there for him! I will keep them in my prayers.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Sunday, July 24, 2011 at 15:44:20 (MST)
Just got a call from Jane, Ray Domengeaux's wife. They will put him under the care of Hospice tomorrow. Keep him in your prayers. Roland Trahan is with him.
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Sunday, July 24, 2011 at 13:56:52 (MST)
All of you who are on Facebook might enjoy "Lafayette Memories" which you can put in the Search engine. I'm enjoying reading all of the Remember When items that are posted. Don't go there unless you have lots of time!
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 08:08:31 (MST)
Lovely grandchild, Rickey. Thanks, Marshall, for the good wishes for Matt. His team finally lost 1-0 with him as the final batter. He flew out to center field and was very upset by the loss. He hopes to make the team at Catholic High as he will be a freshman this year. My prayers will be for Ray and his family. A priest friend of Marshall's and ours is really bad off with Parkinson's. He is having so much trouble breathing and it sounds like Ray is having the same trouble. They can't cough up the fluid in their lungs. It's a terrible thing to happen and causes panic attacks.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, July 16, 2011 at 09:21:50 (MST)
Hey, everybody Dale Gaudet had his 75th birthday last Sunday. I missed it so I thought I would put it where everybody could see it. Dale I hope you had a great day and there are many more days that you can remember with hope. Hope everything is improving in your family. Sorry I missed it.
Rickey
USA - Saturday, July 16, 2011 at 06:31:00 (MST)
The latest word on Ray Domeangeaux! Jane says that she apologies for not staying in touch with all of you indiviually. Ray has recently lost about 25 lbs in the last 6 or 7 weeks. He has trouble breathing as well as difficulty eating and drinking. He is scheduled for xrays of the throat and lungs. The medical staff at the nursing home say it is an allergy...Jane is taking him to Ochners Hospital for the xrays on 7/27/11. She will call me after they know more.
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Friday, July 15, 2011 at 20:35:07 (MST)
Good luck to Matt, Brenda. Rickey your great granddaughter is precious!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 01:49:51 (MST)
Our grandson Matt is playing in the Disney World Series in Orlando this week. He is a pitcher and center fielder. They have stiff competition! We can follow the games on a website--very exciting!
Brenda
Baton Rouge, LA USA - Wednesday, July 13, 2011 at 06:07:07 (MST)
AMEN! J.J.
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Sunday, July 10, 2011 at 02:42:21 (MST)
Didn't mean to ask you to comment on another judge, J.J., just what you thought of the evidence.
Brenda
Baton Rouge, LA USA - Saturday, July 09, 2011 at 15:51:30 (MST)
J.J., I forgot that we have a Judge commentator of our very own!!!! If you watched the trial, I'm curious about what you thought and if you would have done anything differently than this trial judge did. Did you think that they had enough circumstantial evidence to bring her to trial? Please tell us what you think.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, July 09, 2011 at 15:09:36 (MST)
Only she knows if she killed her daughter. If she did, having to live with that will be a terrible punishment itself. She will have to live with this the rest of her life. Being so young that will be a long time. Has anyone heard if her parents will let her back into their house to live?
Rickey
USA - Saturday, July 09, 2011 at 06:33:28 (MST)
Marshall, you are right. At the same time the media has rendered a verdict of guilty and will hound her for the rest of her life and see that she if found guilty in the court of public opinion.
J. J. Erny <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
Larose, La USA - Saturday, July 09, 2011 at 05:17:30 (MST)
Thank God we live in a country where everyone is innocent until proven guilty! If the corner could not come up with the cause of death, who is to say it was not accidental? If there is no murder, then there is no murderer! "To me" this is the only verdict they could come up with!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Englewood, FL USA - Thursday, July 07, 2011 at 03:22:05 (MST)
I think it was the death penalty that caused the jurors to reach their verdict. It must not be very easy to vote to put someone to death, particularly when no one knew exactly how Kaylee died. Those poor grandparents! I wonder where Casey will be welcomed to live--maybe with her defense attorneys who seemed to love her.
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 at 07:11:04 (MST)
I stayed glued to the tv set and watched the trial and was sure they would get her on one of the lesser charges. What a surprise when she got lying to the police. If she is innocent I'm glad she got off. However I just don't see where she is innocent. It took me quiet a while to cool off after the trial. I guess I am better but have a very sour taste in my mouth. Oh well there is nothing we can do about it. I guess we will just have to accept itl
Rickey
USA - Tuesday, July 05, 2011 at 23:10:26 (MST)
Can you believe this video? http://www.wimp.com/oldschool/
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, July 05, 2011 at 14:33:46 (MST)
Any one keeping up with the Casey Anthony trial???
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, July 05, 2011 at 09:00:18 (MST)
I guess it's old age Rickey! I have a posting on June 20th on the HS Website.
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Monday, June 27, 2011 at 02:37:13 (MST)
Well OP and Shirley are back home after a visit to Lafayette. Needless to say they had plenty to eat. I think OP had crawfish at every meal. We all had a very good time while they were here. Shirley and OP spent most of there time here visiting with their family. I guess they will give their stomach a rest and go on a diet now.
Marshall where have you been. We haven't heard from you in a long time. I started to write to you on the class page but never got to it. Let's see, OP made his summer trip and Marshall still has his Christmas trip for us to look forward to. I guess when he comes we will have another class meeting again. Seems like everyone had a great time the last time we had it.
Rickey
USA - Monday, June 27, 2011 at 00:50:55 (MST)
Marshall, thanks for the mass. I am back from the funeral of Lita’s brother in Lafayette. It was three days of sack cloth and ashes. He was the past president and founder of the regional wrecker service. There were wreckers from three states in the funeral procession. It was several miles long.
J. J. Erny <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
Larose, La USA - Sunday, June 26, 2011 at 17:20:45 (MST)
Man, just looking at those choices from Borden's made my mouth water. Who shared that enormous confection in from of Shirley? I know she couldn't do it justice all by herself! Looked like a fun afternoon!
Brenda
USA - Saturday, June 25, 2011 at 16:44:56 (MST)
Love those prices on the Borden's bulletin board. I KNOW that you didn't pay .70 for a bananna split!!!!!
Doris
USA - Friday, June 24, 2011 at 18:41:48 (MST)
I too am guilty of the same oversite J.J. I saw the Obit. in today's paper and offer my condolencies as well.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Thursday, June 23, 2011 at 13:08:01 (MST)
J.J., my condolences to you and Lita on the passing of her brother in San Antonio. You might find comfort in a best-seller book written by a minister, "90 Minutes in Heaven" that I read recently. He beautifully describes his brief encounter with the afterlife. My joke following your chat might not have been in good taste. Henrietta
Henrietta
USA - Wednesday, June 22, 2011 at 13:37:45 (MST)
It's great to see all of you looking so well. I'm sure it was a grand time in Harvey's lovely home. P.S. His wife is very attractive!
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 09:42:18 (MST)
J.J., I am so sorry about Lita's brother. I will remember him in my prayers.
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 06:34:43 (MST)
My sympathies to Lida, Ernie...your email is not receiving email. I will offer mass for the repose of the soul of Lida's brother.
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Monday, June 20, 2011 at 11:45:22 (MST)
That reminds me of leap year, a year of 366 days, in which February has 29 days. Every fourth year is a leap year. Is that year when the girls were supposed to chase the boys, as if they did not do that in any year. I remember people use to say a boy chased a girl until she catches him.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Monday, June 20, 2011 at 11:05:59 (MST)
Hope all of you Fathers had a lovely day yesterday. We celebrated John's birthday and Father's Day. It happens about every 4 years that they are on the same day. He was actually born on Father's Day.
Brenda
USA - Monday, June 20, 2011 at 07:01:33 (MST)
My previous guestbook chat should have read, "What machine in here should I use to impress that sweet thing over there?”
Henrietta
USA - Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 18:04:56 (MST)
Hope all you Dads are enjoying a Happy Father’s Day. Since these days, we mostly seem to have aches and pains, thought you all might enjoy this joke I heard recently:
Advice to an Old Guy...
An old guy (not in the best of shape) was working out in the gym, when he spotted a sweet young thing.
He asked his male trainer, “What machine in her should I use to impress that sweet thing over there?”
The trainer looked him up and down and replied, "I would try the ATM in the lobby.”
Henrietta
USA - Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 18:02:11 (MST)
Lita and I spent 7 miserable days in the Texas hill country. Average temperature 102. Lita’s brother was in San Antonio for a kidney transplant. The transplant was successful; but his heart failed and he passed last night. A trip but not a vacation.
J. J. Erny <judgeerny @ mobiletel.com>
Larose, La USA - Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 09:48:18 (MST)
What's going on around here. For Mother's Day, our daughters gave us a third tree because we needed shade at our front door, which our old oak tree provided. When we came home from something, the tree was already planted in our yard! No one was home and no one told them where we wanted it. I was beside myself being upset. It will never provide shade for the front door! Then, while I was in the library, someone broke into my car and stole my purse that was hidden under the front seat. I don't know how they did it because of all of the people going into the library and it was definitely locked. Anyway, beside having to replace everything stolen, the worst part was changing our checking account because of all of the automatic banking actions. That was the biggest headache. I've started water aerobics three times a week at the YMCA. Hope I continue going, but it's really easy and probably not as good for you as working out on the machines there. I have just had a root canal for an abscessed tooth. It really wasn't bad. Yesterday I checked my E-bay account and discovered that I have now sent Johnny 16 new silk ties for a total of $63. They are beautiful ties and I bought them by being the highest bidder. The most I paid for one of them was $7.00. He can wear a different tie every day on his morning show. He is doing well and we can see him on their website every day. Well, that's what has been keeping us busy. Hope to hear from you guys.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, June 11, 2011 at 07:27:14 (MST)
Brenda, I don't know if everyone is like me but nothing is happening that is worth talking about. Just about the only thing I could talk is about all my hospital stays. That would be just too boring. My knee surgery was not bad at all. The pain is going away slowly. I start out patient therapy on Monday. Three day a week.
Barbara's son is retiring from the Air Force on the 24th of this month and the whole family is going to be there. I guess that will be my vacation for this year.
Let's get everybody to make a note on the class page. It's the only way we can keep up with everyone.
Rickey
USA - Sunday, June 05, 2011 at 01:29:52 (MST)
Looks like everyone is on vacation!
Brenda
USA - Friday, June 03, 2011 at 12:02:35 (MST)
After 4 days exercising on the recumbent bike at the YMCA, the pain in my leg has left me. Nothing like therapy and exercise. Hooray!! now I'm just waiting for the steri-strips to fall off the incisions so I can get in the pool and do some water exercise.
Doris
USA - Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at 09:24:54 (MST)
I admire those who have knee surgery. It must be painful, but maybe less painful than the trouble resulting in the surgery. I pray you'll do well, Rickey.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, May 21, 2011 at 06:39:01 (MST)
Doris I came home yestrday and I am doing great. I don't have pain when I am still. When they come to work on my knee there is lot of pain. They say it will be much better in about two weeks, I can't wait. Hey this is quiet a trip. Thanks for asking Doris
Rickey
USA - Saturday, May 21, 2011 at 02:24:36 (MST)
Glad to hear Rickey is doing well. The rough time is probably yet to come. My knee is still giving me trouble,but it has just been a week since the scope. However, I can forsee a replacement in the future.
Doris
USA - Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 19:15:49 (MST)
We have been watching on T.V. the poor people who are loosing their homes and livelyhood. All we can say is that we are PROUD to be from a clan of such resilient people like the Cajuns are. Just think of it. It goes way back in history (back to Nova Scotia). They have had their homes and livelyhood taken from them and they just turned around and rebuilt. All of the people interviewed on T.V. have no hard feelings. They just say they will take it as it comes and rebuild their homes . Such courage!!!! I certainly hope the government helps them..
Doris
USA - Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 19:12:03 (MST)
Doris, Here's what I found: "So far, they have spared Baton Rouge and New Orleans the widespread flooding seen in some communities upriver along the historically high Mississippi. The massive diversion of water into Atchafalaya and Lake Pontchartrain basins has eased the pressure on local levees. Chris Brantly, project manager at the Bonnet Carre says the flow of the river has now stabilized." The news doesn't speak about us flooding; only about those poor people who are losing their homes so that we won't be affected. They do talk about both LSU and Southern being so near the River and what precautions they are taking with those levees.
Brenda
USA - Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 18:14:15 (MST)
I talked to his son-in-law this morning and he told me that the surgery went well and he is already walking. Recouperation is so fast now a day.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 10:55:22 (MST)
Isn't Rickey having surgery today? Does anyone know how he is doing? I've been thinking about him. Brenda, how is the water over there in Baton Rouge?
Doris
USA - Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 10:24:39 (MST)
I agree. We were in False River Sunday and noticed that flooding will occur to the North, West and East but not the South. If you look at the Corp of Engineers maps it looks weird but I guess that's why it is called False River!
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 17:52:23 (MST)
I guess it would kind of difficult to flood Grand Isle!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Monday, May 16, 2011 at 17:06:45 (MST)
Glub, Glub. If it gets bad I can always evacuate to Grand Isle.
j. J. Erny
Larose, La, USA - Monday, May 16, 2011 at 05:00:10 (MST)
Is JJ's home threatened by the opening of Morganza Spillway? Are any of our classmates affected?
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
USA - Sunday, May 15, 2011 at 14:27:46 (MST)
Great Doris! Will offer a Mass of thanksgiving this morning! I guess Rickey's next!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Friday, May 13, 2011 at 03:09:16 (MST)
My knee scope went great this afternoon. NO PAIN.
Doris
USA - Thursday, May 12, 2011 at 19:41:52 (MST)
I bet we could write a Medical Dictionary by just defining all the illnesses we get and the tests we have to go thru when going old! Ha!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Sunday, May 08, 2011 at 04:46:28 (MST)
Rickey, I will remember you in my prayers. I'm having arthroscopy this Thurs. May 12. Happy Mother's day to all you Mom's out there.
Doris
USA - Saturday, May 07, 2011 at 18:57:51 (MST)
Doris, my surgery will be on May 19th. Thanks for asking.
Rickey
USA - Thursday, May 05, 2011 at 22:04:08 (MST)
Rickey when is your surgery?
Doris
USA - Wednesday, May 04, 2011 at 20:43:45 (MST)
No, no documentation so far. I just have to have a private one on one scanning. Usually they are really nice people the scanner just beeps where you know the replacements are. I guess these people know how the replacements beep and if it were anything else they could tell.
Doris
USA - Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 10:21:00 (MST)
Doris, what does it take for you to board an airplane? And documentation?
Brenda
USA - Thursday, April 28, 2011 at 14:42:07 (MST)
I just found out I have torn meniscus in my right knee. Will have to have outpatient surgery on that. Shucks. Well, at least (so far) I don't need a knee replacement. But I guess that will be next. Tnen I will trully be bionic. :)
Doris
USA - Thursday, April 28, 2011 at 10:36:52 (MST)
Gerald you wouldn't believe how many people in the Woodlands are from Louisiana. I'll have to mention it to Chuck and Roxanne.
Doris
USA - Monday, April 25, 2011 at 18:12:16 (MST)
Attended the memorial service for Coach Shipley last Friday. Had never attended a Baptist Church function in my life. It was very interesting and memorable. Noticed that there were no kneelers present on any pew. Thought that to be unusual but the singing was outstanding. Coaches youngest daughter Amy Cowand delivered one of the Eulogies and I noticed in the Obit that she was from The Woodlands in Houston. Talked to her afterward and coincidentally she knew Chuck Provost and his wife very well. Small world huh Doris!
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Monday, April 25, 2011 at 17:21:21 (MST)
Believe me Rickey, you will be so glad you did the surgery after it is all done.
Doris
USA - Sunday, April 24, 2011 at 18:15:43 (MST)
Good luck with the knee surgery Rickey!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Sunday, April 24, 2011 at 03:30:13 (MST)
Let me to wish everyone a VERY HAPPY AND HOLY EASTER. Barbara and I went to the UL baseball game last night and saw a real good baseball game. It went into extra innings and what made it even greater we WON. The cajuns were 5 runs behind until the 8th inning. We scored 5 runs in the in that inning and finally won it in the 11th. The game was 31/2hours long. A good time was had by all. I sent OP some pictures of my new great grandchild and hope he put them on the web page. By the way speaking of OP he and Shirley are coming down to Louisiana in June. I think he is going to New Orleans for a political reasons. He will come to Lafayette after that. I think he will spend 5 days here; Well sometimes in May I will have knee replacement on my left knee. Not looking forward to it but it will be better than it is now,
Well again HAPPY EASTER.
Rickey
USA - Sunday, April 24, 2011 at 02:45:45 (MST)
HAPPY EASTER, EVERYONE!
Brenda
USA - Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 07:09:01 (MST)
J.J., they must be popular as all of the large houses are taken!!!
Brenda
USA - Friday, April 22, 2011 at 09:17:48 (MST)
Good work on Brumby Rickey. He, Daniel and I played together when I was living with Daniel. We would trap flying squirrels, put them on a string in our pockets and bring them to school. Not sure the Brothers liked that too much. His brother-in-law is Tally Fournet, who ownes the Chevron service station on Johnston, married to Brumby's older sister. He, Gene Cella and Charlie Arceneaux left Cathedral in, I think, the 10th grade. Talley tells me that he is a Doctor of Medicine and I don't know what he specilizes in. There were many girls and guys that left both schools. Far too many for me to remember.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 11:43:45 (MST)
Thanks, J.J. I'll do a search for rentals.
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 07:43:38 (MST)
Grand Isle has beach rentals. Rated as one of the top 8 winter beaches in the United States.
J. J.
USA - Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 07:30:39 (MST)
I got in touch with of all people Brumby Sessions. He is a big time doctor in Charleston S.C. He told me his has a house on the Alantic Ocean. We spoke for quiet a while. Suzanne we spoke about you when he lived on Oleander St. I think he has 3 children. One is in the Army and another works for the FBI. He said he doesn't get back here very often. It's a two day drive and at our age you know how hard that can be. We hung up promising to keep in touch with each other.I think he might write on the class page. I gave him all the information he needed to get on.
Rickey
USA - Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 06:45:06 (MST)
Are there any beaches and places to rent in Louisiana? I'd like to keep the money in Louisiana, if there is anything kind of like the places in Ms., Al, or Fl.
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 06:14:35 (MST)
Just saw your grand-daughter's pic Doris. Beautiful face. Kind of resembles you.
Yes my old ball Coach passed Marshall. He reminded me of Boo Jones in the way he coached. Tough, smart and driven. Most of his players will be present on the 22nd for his memorial service including me.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Sunday, April 17, 2011 at 08:59:40 (MST)
Coach Shipley VIP, yes, but RIP!!!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Sunday, April 17, 2011 at 03:35:52 (MST)
Coach Shipley VIP
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Sunday, April 17, 2011 at 03:34:27 (MST)
Jayden is precious!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Friday, April 15, 2011 at 02:38:25 (MST)
Doris, Jayden's face is really like a doll's face as she is just precious! So sorry to hear about Ray's condition. I'll pray for him and his wife.
Brenda
USA - Thursday, April 14, 2011 at 06:04:56 (MST)
Sign on the way to Grand Isle/ “BEER IS CHEAPER THAN GAS ! DRINK, DON’T DRIVE!"
J. J.
USA - Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at 12:59:04 (MST)
Just heared from Jane...Ray Domengeaux's wife...Ray is in BR General with pneumonia. Dementia is fast setting in. He will be back in the Nursing home today. Please keep him in your prayers. LU All
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at 05:55:06 (MST)
I just wanted you all to know that I have reactivated that NING website I had created in 2009. They had started to charge the developer for it's use, so I had dropped it. They have now reduced the price for it so I'm trying it again. It is for any class year of Catheral/Carmel in Lafayette. The web address is: http://cathedralcarmel.ning.com/ So check it out. There are some limitations in that I am not able to create separate Groups for each class. So we will have to settle for one big happy C/C family for now. You now have the ability to upload your own photos, similar to FAcebook. I think this site is a little more private and secure than Facebook. Although I'm a big user of Facebook and have no personal fears about it. I know some others don't trust FB. Let me know what you all think of the NING site.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Elkridge, MD USA - Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at 03:41:00 (MST)
Little excitement around here. Sunday, during mass at the Sister's convent, someone walked in the front door and stole a purse. The cantor could see him. That's right down the street from us. Yesterday, someone robbed a bank in our neighborhood and shot at the police as they chased him. They locked down SJA and Catholic High (right down the street from us) and cordoned off the streets around here. He is still on the loose. This is usually such a peaceful neighborhood. Our two dogs are great watchdogs, even as small as they are. They hear everything and bark at anything!
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, April 12, 2011 at 06:28:19 (MST)
I appreciate all of the tree suggestions, two sent directly to my e-mail address. I have gotten suggestions from everyone, including the bug man who insisted that I by a swamp red maple. An aborist that we actually hired recommended a Chinese Fringe tree. I went to see all of them, including cypress trees. Then, I chose the one that I thought most beautiful and had a history of growing well in the full sun. We bought a Drake Elm and a Natchez Crepe Myrtle. We might not live long enough to enjoy them at their peek, but the holes were dug yesterday by my two sons-in-law and they will be delivered and planted Thursday. Now to keep them alive in the blistering sun that we will probably have again this summer!!
Brenda
USA - Sunday, April 10, 2011 at 15:50:39 (MST)
Brenda, Have you thought about a cypress tree. They grow tall and don't have problems with hurricanes. I planted one a while back when Barbara's mother died and it now a beautiful tree. Tall and straight. The roots do get above the ground be I cut them and there is no problem. It loses it's leaves during the winter months. It's not too bad because the leaves are small. I planted it when Barbara's mother died six years ago. She loved them. I call it Barbara because that was her name. When we went to Sulphur Barbara (my wife's name) we called her Barbara Lynd. That was my Barbara's grandmother's name. That way we wouldn't get the two mixed up.
Rickey
USA - Sunday, April 10, 2011 at 07:46:17 (MST)
SURPRISE. It's me. Just thought I would drop by and say hi. I know I don't get in here often enough. I saw where Judy Landry mentioned my name, so I thought I would drop in. Shirley and I are in Jacksonville, NC visiting our son and grandson. Every year we come down for his school play. He is a HS band director and is involved in the production. We saw it again last night, seen it twice. They did "Hairspray." Since this is the deep south, there had been some controversy about the storyline about the years of integration in the city of Baltimore, etc., but it seemed to go over real good. The kids and school staff did a great job putting it on.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
USA - Sunday, April 10, 2011 at 04:45:20 (MST)
Oak, Maple, pine, willow, and china ball trees all give some shade. The good shade trees are oak and Maple. They tale 20 to 30 years to mature. We are simply to mature to plant them. Buy a lot with trees on it.
J. J.
USA - Saturday, April 09, 2011 at 17:23:54 (MST)
I think all of you remember Judy Landry Caswell who graduated from Mt. Carmel the year after we did. She sent me this letter after we spoke about their 55th reunion this year. She said: "Yes, I did graduate the year after you and with Stewart. We are having our reunion the last week-end in April and the invitations just went out. The girls will meet Friday for lunch at Joycelyn Thibeaux's and then Saturday late afternoon the girls and boys are meeting at the Knights of Columbus Hall in back of Holy Cross for a very informal gathering. Guess we are all getting too old to bother with all the fuss that accompanied our earlier reunions. We do look forward to seeing everyone, however. Eight of us meet once a month--usually around the third Wednesday of the month--at some restaurant that the "hostess" selects and then we retreat to her house for coffee and cake and talk until later in the afternoon. We are never at a loss for words and so enjoy it. One year we went to Florida for a week-end and had a ball. Can't believe we actually did it. We talk all the time about taking these fabulous trips--all the way from a train ride across Canada to a cruise--but you can believe that will never happen. It's fun pretending. I keep up with your class on your web site and had hoped our class would take advantage of what O.P. started but that never went over very well. Now I have forgotten how to get into it. Take care"
Brenda
USA - Saturday, April 09, 2011 at 16:15:08 (MST)
Congratulations to Harvey and Fay on their 3rd wedding anniversary on the 19th!!!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Wednesday, April 06, 2011 at 06:45:53 (MST)
Does anyone have any advice about buying and planting a tree? We have someone who is going to order it and plant it for us, but he is waiting to hear what kind of tree we want to buy. One man recommended a Chinese Fringe Tree. He said that it is the one that he has the best results from. A website called it a shrub, not a tree, and I want shade eventually. Actually, I guess we are planting it so the people who live here some day will have shade!
Brenda
USA - Friday, April 01, 2011 at 07:02:09 (MST)
They are.
Brenda
USA - Sunday, March 27, 2011 at 06:54:47 (MST)
You realize that stories like mine are sick humor.
J. J.
USA - Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 11:38:19 (MST)
J.J., I read your note out loud to John and we enjoyed the description of your hospital stay. It is good to laugh as there have been few laughs around here for the past few weeks.
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at 19:47:05 (MST)
J.J. I don't remember you being such a funny person, but you make me laugh and that's a good thing.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at 12:30:40 (MST)
Cancer scares are rough. I had one last week. Blood and pain. In the hospital I was treated the same way that they treat people ( so I have been told) in a Mexican brothel. The put me in a room and gave me some dope, then a group of ladies came into the room and took my clothes off. Then they put me in a bed and gave me a lot more dope. They woke up about and hour latter and put my clothes on me they told me that it was time to go home. No cancer.
J. J. Erny <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
Larose, La USA - Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at 07:43:04 (MST)
A few weeks ago I went for my annual physical and he sent me for routine blood, urine, and chest x-ray. To my surprise, I had blood in my urine and a mass in my chest. So he sent me for a CAT scan. Then I had to see a pulmonary doctor because of what showed up in my right lung on the CAT scan. Monday I had a PET scan of my lungs and got the results. It is NOT CANCER! He thinks that the mass is benign and he wants me to have another x-ray in 4 weeks. He didn’t say what he thinks caused the problem in the first place, but we are not worried about anything any more.
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at 06:46:49 (MST)
I received this from Julian today titled The Pastor's Business Card. A new pastor was visiting in the homes of his parishioners. At one house it seemed obvious that someone was at home, but no answer came to his repeated knocks at the door. Therefore, he took out a business card and wrote 'Revelation 3:20' on the back of it and stuck it in the door. When the offering was processed the following Sunday, he found that his card had been returned. Added to it was this cryptic message, 'Genesis 3:10...' Reaching for his Bible to check out the citation, he broke up in gales of laughter. Revelations 3:20 begins 'Behold, I stand at the door and knock' Genesis 3:10 reads, 'I heard your voice in the garden and I was afraid for I was naked...' Remember when the funniest jokes were the clean ones?
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Sunday, March 20, 2011 at 14:03:09 (MST)
They are cutting down an enormous water oak tree in our front yard today. It's kind of sad because that tree was here when we built our house. However, it is over 45 years old and those are the trees that have come down all over our neighborhood in every hurricane. That tree has provided us with so much shade that our utilities' bill was always so reasonable during the hot summer. Hate to think of it this year!!
Brenda
USA - Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 06:06:45 (MST)
My favorite lenten story was told to us several years ago by Fr. Calais in one of his sermons. He was giving the ashes one morning and he could see a tall young man in line staggering to the front of the line to receive his ashes. He immediately thought that he has celebrated Mardi Grais way too much. When he got to Fr. Calais he stuck his toungue out and Fr. wanted to place an ash cross on his toungue so bad, but he did not. That is what you call temptation!
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 12:25:38 (MST)
It always is cold and wet for the parade Brenda! I'm with you about the floats...they all look alike to me year after year! Our family has hot dogs on mardi gras...saves clean up and is easy to do! Everyone brings a beverage of their choice! Here in FL its a day like any other day! I burned last years palms, so I am ready for Ash Wednesday today!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Wednesday, March 09, 2011 at 04:29:05 (MST)
Was in Lafayette today for a wet Mardi Gras. We had a family reunion on the old Meaux property on the parade route. It was very nice and we could have fed most of the Mardi Gras crowd with the food that was there. Everyone thought that they needed to bring enough for everyone. I think they are still using the same floats that they used when we were kids.
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, March 08, 2011 at 20:15:27 (MST)
When Jared applied for the job he has now as a forester, it was the same way, you would've thought he was appling for president of the United States. He had to take test after test and go through all kinds of physicals. And he had a trial period also. That was before he went to Iraq. They have prooven to be very good to him. Kept his job open and even gave him a promotion when he came home. I'll keep praying for Johnny. We NEVER stop worrying about our children, no matter how old they are....
Doris
USA - Thursday, March 03, 2011 at 19:47:45 (MST)
Actually, Doris, Johnny did get the job, with a 6 week trial period before getting benefits. I have never seen such a long drawn out process! I think the fact that he hasn't been an anchor before and they have a new computer program that he will have to learn is making them cautious. Although there is no comparison, I always worried about you and Charles when Jaren was in Iraq and I know, until these next 6 weeks are over, I will continue to worry as I have been for a year and a half. Then, I think I will "get a life!"
Brenda
USA - Thursday, March 03, 2011 at 07:41:00 (MST)
Thanks Rickey for the Birthday wish. Gosh I didn't expect you or anyone to remember my birthday, but I do appreciate the good wishes. Brenda when will we know about Johnny's job? I am anxiously waiting and praying too. I went to see my precious little one this week-end in Oakdale. Gosh but I love her. Just wish she lived closer. She is so sweet. Everyone just loves her, not only us grandparents.
Doris
USA - Tuesday, March 01, 2011 at 20:34:27 (MST)
Went to see Unknown Tuesday. If you haven't seen it yet I think it's a great movie. Brenda I hope your son has a good luck. Doris I'm sorry I missed wishing you a Happy Birthday but hear's one for next year in case I forget again. Happy birthday and many, many more to come. You guys have to forgive me but I have Dementia and I tend to forget a lot of things. I can remenber 50 years ago but 10 minutes ago goes fast. Barbara is putting up with it.
Good luck to everyoneand God Bless.
Rickey
Rickeu
USA - Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 07:28:50 (MST)
Johnny's interview will be an intention in my mass this morning, Brenda, for God's Will as always!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 04:40:22 (MST)
The day is finally here for Johnny's second interview. He drives to Palm Springs today and meets with them. Then they are putting him up in a hotel and he has to go back at midnight until about 10 a.m., then, back to the Riviera sounds plush)and doing the same thing the next day. By the time this nerve-wracking episode in our lives is over, I'll be one happy Mama! At least, I hope it will be happy news. I just won my eighth tie on E-bay. He could wear the same two suits every day with different ties, so that's my contribution. However, wouldn't you know that narrow ties are coming back in style?--none of these are narrow.
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, February 23, 2011 at 07:55:07 (MST)
Thanks Brenda, I do miss being close to you guys too. Wish I had wings to fly over there for lunch with you.
Doris
USA - Monday, February 21, 2011 at 19:39:10 (MST)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DORIS! We miss you being so far away. Hope you have many many more birthdays with your wonderful family.
Brenda
USA - Monday, February 21, 2011 at 15:30:21 (MST)
Nick had 3 basketball games today. (Playoffs) they came out second. That means they had only one loss in the whole season. Not a bad season. NOW WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO FOR FUN ON WEEK-ENDS??????
Doris
USA - Sunday, February 20, 2011 at 19:26:42 (MST)
Talking about games. I didn't realize that basketball can be so rough. We've been going to our "little boys" basketball games. Matt and Nate (1st and 2nd grade) games are pretty tame, because they really are just learning and don't know much about the moves. But Nick's (11 yr.old) games are WOW. At least in football they have pads to protect them. These little boys are VERY competative and mean business. Well, I guess I must say their COACHES are. They ARE exciting, though. Today Nick's team is playing in the playoffs. His team hasn't lost game this year. It sould be good today. My boys didn't play basketball so this is a first for me. Mine played football and soccer.
Doris
USA - Saturday, February 19, 2011 at 07:32:38 (MST)
Max weighed 10 lbs. 5 oz. when he was born and has been big for his age ever since. He LOVES sports and follows all professional sports like a fanatic. However, God was not kind to him when it came to athletic ability. He is not well-coordinated and, though his football coach loves him, he will probably not play high school football. Luckily, he also has a large brain and a large heart. We call him a gentle giant.
Brenda
USA - Friday, February 18, 2011 at 11:47:04 (MST)
Brenda, I can't believe your little Max is already so big!!!!!
Doris
USA - Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at 18:50:24 (MST)
I agree Marshall. It was a tough game and my grandson hurt his knee twice and eventually could not finish the game. Looks like fluid on the knee. We shall see.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at 17:26:42 (MST)
"Big Max" ought to get his college paid for, Brenda! Gerald I think STM coach said it all: "We played a really good team who had a very good tactical plan against us!" The Cougars can hold their heads high...we learn more from losing than from winning!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at 04:43:49 (MST)
I just meant that we are entering our 74th year this year. Can you believe it? Thank you for all of the kind wishes. It has been a good day.
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 20:43:49 (MST)
Is there something else besides 56 years for us Brenda? Tomorrow is Charles' birthday. He'll be 76. We will be married 56 years in Sept.
Doris
USA - Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 15:22:23 (MST)
Happy birthday Brenda. About your last statement, are we all celebrating 56 years from high school graduation this year?
Tonight is the biggest soccer game of the year in Lafayette. Our grandson Tyler Reaux is a starting defender. STM is rated #6 in State and Lafayette High is rated #3 in State both are in division I and play each other tonight in the quarter finals at 7 PM at Lafayette High. We will be there early for the tail gating.
GEAUX COUGARS!
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 15:18:14 (MST)
Thanks for the birthday wishes. I like having my birthday the day after Valentine's day. Somehow I can always stretch the celebrating for two days. You do know what year this is for all of us?????
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 14:18:18 (MST)
Hope you have a great Birthday, Brenda...
Doris Provost
USA - Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 05:44:24 (MST)
Happy Birthday Brenda!! You just missed Valentine's day. So you get two happy days in a row!!
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
USA - Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 04:59:26 (MST)
Hope this day has been a happy one with Valentine overtones! If not, here's one from me: Happy Valentine's Day, dear friends!
Brenda
USA - Monday, February 14, 2011 at 16:11:08 (MST)
Prayers and Masses continue for "God's Will", Brenda!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Friday, February 11, 2011 at 03:52:44 (MST)
Sorry to be so late in responding. As you can imagine, I have had nothing on my mind but you know what! I haven’t been bugging Johnny, but he wrote this morning to say that he heard from them and they want him to come in the first week in March for a second interview. He is not sure what that means as he was hoping that they weren’t looking at anyone else. Oh well, our family motto is: "Nothing's easy!" and it is surely proving to be true.
Brenda
USA - Thursday, February 10, 2011 at 15:43:54 (MST)
Keep up posted Brenda. We'll be waiting.
Doris
USA - Friday, February 04, 2011 at 06:36:21 (MST)
Thank all of you! I just knew whom to turn to when we needed help. Well, I've been waiting all day to hear something and Johnny called when he left Palm Springs, but his cell phone must have gone down after we had spoken for about 5 minutes. He was in a good mood, but he doesn't know anything yet. The position is the co-anchor for the morning show at a t.v. station. One thing that has him and us worried is that the General manager said he would want a 5 or 10 year commitment. I think Johnny wanted to get back into the television industry and later, find a job closer to his home. I do appreciate your prayers and will keep you posted.
Brenda
USA - Thursday, February 03, 2011 at 15:45:40 (MST)
I don't think you ever stop worrying about your children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Our prayers go out to you Brenda and your son.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Thursday, February 03, 2011 at 12:04:00 (MST)
Thanks for the birthday wishes...it's Jan 30th...just for the record. Your son is in my prayers and masses Brenda...just got off of retreat...so I'm late in reading the Web Site
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Thursday, February 03, 2011 at 12:02:40 (MST)
Brenda, I'm glad I checked the webpage today, Johnny certainly WILL be in my prayers tonight.
Doris
USA - Wednesday, February 02, 2011 at 15:09:18 (MST)
Everyone, I am asking (really begging) for prayers. Our son Johnny has his first job interview tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. He's been out of work for a year and a half and really needs this job. Unfortunately, the job is 90 miles from his home, but a job is a job!!! Thank you for praying for him that he can accept whatever happens as happening for the best.
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, February 02, 2011 at 14:34:11 (MST)
Sorry I missed wishing you a Happy Birthday yesterday, Marshall. Hope you had a great day. Is it 74 now?
Doris
USA - Tuesday, February 01, 2011 at 17:53:22 (MST)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARSHALL! I think you have the first birthday of the year.
Brenda
USA - Monday, January 31, 2011 at 21:13:13 (MST)
Only two shopping days left until Marshall's birthday!
Brenda
USA - Saturday, January 29, 2011 at 08:08:21 (MST)
You are very observant Marshall. Not only does she outshine me physically, she agreed to let me celebrate with my former teammates on our 51st wedding anniversary weekend. What a women!
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Tuesday, January 25, 2011 at 12:34:19 (MST)
Pat you should get in more pictures! You make him look so much better! Great picture of both of you!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Sunday, January 23, 2011 at 03:34:43 (MST)
Oh, I forgot to mention, this was in the Advertiser online photo galleries for the Reunion event (upper right of the front page of http://theadvertiser.com).
O. P. Ditch
USA - Saturday, January 22, 2011 at 05:05:47 (MST)
Well, Gerald keeps making the papers with his Reunion. Now he let Pat get in on the publicity, she doesn't like to get in on the pictures you know. Check this Photo out: CLICK HERE!
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
USA - Saturday, January 22, 2011 at 05:03:30 (MST)
We are having gumbo and potato salad tonight for reuniting. Tomorrow day a tour of the campus. Night we will be allowed to witness the shoot around at 2 and food again in the Mardi Gras room at the Cajun Dome. There they will recognize Dr. Sam Foreman as the oldest former player ('39-'42). He is now 90 and a retired dentist in Lafayette.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Friday, January 21, 2011 at 13:04:43 (MST)
Congratulations for making history Gerald! Coach Shipley has long been removed from my memory. Glad to hear that he is sill around. You all enjoy the reunion!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Thursday, January 20, 2011 at 22:39:51 (MST)
Thanks for the posting O.P. I was asked to be a decade captan ('55-'60) for the reunion. My decade is the oldest being recognized this weekend. There will be six younger decades that will be recognized also. Many of the former players in my decade are unable to travel for health reasons and some are deceased. However we will have several players who can't wait to come back to Lafayette and renew old acquaintances and see Coach Shipley. He is not in good health and will be at the game Saturday night and has invited all of our decade and their families to his home for a meal after the game. He is 84 and this will probably be his last celebration with his "boy's" as he calls us.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Thursday, January 20, 2011 at 09:16:21 (MST)
Gerald made the Abbeville Paper yesterday: Check out his ULL BBall activity:
http://vermiliontoday.com/view/full_story/11045999/article-Cajuns-basketball-set-for-Reunion-Weekend?instance=secondary_sports_left_column
He is on the far right in the picture.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
USA - Thursday, January 20, 2011 at 05:14:49 (MST)
Beautiful babies!!!! Thanks for all the FaceBook messages. I don't know how to use FB because I don't spend enough time with it so please be patient with me. I will give it some time every day now that the sewing is almost over. Rickey, glad that you are ok, we will see you next Friday at lunch. Happy New Year to all of you. What a good looking group of "SENIORS" in the picture. LSU was great in the Cotton Bowl Friday. I have to get back to the BCS bowl. Go Auburn and the SEC. Sounds like me might lose Miles. I might be the only fan who likes him and I wouldn't blame him for leaving. We will see what happens this week.
Suzanne
USA - Monday, January 10, 2011 at 20:31:52 (MST)
Doris, you and Charles have peopled the world with wonderful, giving people! Congratulations for the new addition of a beautiful baby girl!
Brenda
USA - Monday, January 10, 2011 at 08:25:15 (MST)
Marshall, our family is growing so much, it reminds me of your big lovely family. We now have total, including the spouses of our children and grand children, and Charles and I, of 30. Gosh is seems like just yesterday we got married. Oh and by the way, in March we will have great grand baby number 5.
Doris
USA - Monday, January 10, 2011 at 06:30:14 (MST)
Congratulations Rickey and Doris...Great Grand Children...man you guys are getting old!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Sunday, January 09, 2011 at 04:10:45 (MST)
Another lovely baby in this world. Congratulations, Rickey! Exciting bowl game last night. LSU looked terrific!
Brenda
USA - Saturday, January 08, 2011 at 08:48:52 (MST)
Just got back to FL and home about 15 mins ago. Everyone made all the comments about the mini reunion already so I won't repeat them, except Glad you pulled thru surgery with flying colors Rickey and great job with the reunion! I thought your choice of Bailey's was a good one...the food was great. Great seeing all of you!! Visited both Ray Domengeaux and Donald Desotel in the nursing home while passing thru Baton Rouge and in Lafayette, resectfully...both handging in there! Both are so lucky to have great women to stand by them. LU All
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Sunday, January 02, 2011 at 10:43:10 (MST)
Home again after a week in California. I have to say, it's warmer here than I was there! Good to see pictures of your reunion. It's wonderful to keep in touch with old friends. I hope all of you enjoy a wonderful year this year. I'm wondering what we will call it. I heard twenty-eleven and 2 thousand 11. Something has to stick.
Brenda
USA - Sunday, January 02, 2011 at 09:57:42 (MST)
I agree Doris. Almost forgot about Marshall he makes a Christmas trip every year and takes O.P.'s place. Nice combination don't you think?
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Saturday, January 01, 2011 at 09:37:51 (MST)
Thanks O.P. for tagging the picture. Good to see all the guys looking so good. I certainly hope all of you, my dear friends reading this, have a wonderful, blessed, healthy and prosperous New Year. Like Rickey said, it's another year, and we are still breathing, and I am one who is thankful for it.
Doris
USA - Friday, December 31, 2010 at 20:49:23 (MST)
Good to hear that you are doing well Rickey and thanks for verifying our teachers. I noticed on the 22nd that we had 12 classmates present same as when O.P. came in for our last get together. Ray and Daniel where not here for this one but Boo and Carroll took their place. Sad to see our numbers decrease so we remained the same thank the Good Lord.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Friday, December 31, 2010 at 16:12:52 (MST)
Gerald I think you are right on all the teahers we had at Cathedral. As far as I can remember those are the ones. I had forgot that Bro. Gauthier had us two years.
Thanks for all who prayed for me when I was in the hospital. I am not completely recovered yet. My neck is still swollen but there is no pain. I had to go to the ER the other night because it started bleeding but it was nothing. My doctor wants me to go see him in 6 weeks. I just wonder what is next for me. Oh well I don't think I should complain because I'm still breathing. Thanks again.
Rickey
USA - Friday, December 31, 2010 at 07:51:49 (MST)
I can't believe we had 50 boys in our 6th grade class. I believe our home room teacher was Brother Bernard. Brother Gauthier in 7th and 8th. Brother Nicholas in 9th, Brother Basil in 10th, Brother Edwin in 11th and Brother Albert in 12th. Am I right?
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Thursday, December 30, 2010 at 18:16:47 (MST)
I am glad that Rickey is ok. I have been down that road and it can have some bad bumps.
j. j. erny <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
larose, la USA - Tuesday, December 28, 2010 at 18:51:15 (MST)
I just got a call from Barbara. Rickey got through the operation just fine. It was really blocked bad. But no complications so far. He will spend the night in the hospital room and maybe released by noon tomorrow. Keep the prayers coming for a full recovery.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
USA - Tuesday, December 28, 2010 at 13:10:13 (MST)
ooooooopppppsssss...... shirts
O. P. Ditch
USA - Tuesday, December 28, 2010 at 11:10:42 (MST)
Gerald, perfect time to shoot a short video of your grandson playing soccer with your new iPhone that has video capability!!!
Ok,in the 6th grade photo, now does it look like I'm wearing a suit coat or sport coat in this photo that everyone else is wearing short sleeve shits, including striped ones?
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
USA - Tuesday, December 28, 2010 at 11:07:12 (MST)
I am at a courtyard marriott in Covington, La. watching my grandson play soccer in the 28 annual St. Paul tournment. He playes for St. Thomas Moore and is a Junior. Yesterday they tied Jesuit 1-1, beat Baton Rouge Catholic 2-0. He had both goals in that game. We play again at 2:15 today and hope to break bracket for the semi's tomorrow. Thanks for the up date on Rickey. I did not know he was going through that and for answering Doris's request O.P.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Tuesday, December 28, 2010 at 09:07:43 (MST)
Doris, names have been added, may have to reload page.
O. P. Ditch
USA - Tuesday, December 28, 2010 at 07:01:34 (MST)
Need prayers for Rickey today he is having tricky carotid artery clean out surgery today. Danger is possible causing stroke during procedure.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
USA - Tuesday, December 28, 2010 at 06:15:26 (MST)
Hey Gerald, could you tag the guys in the picture. Other than you Howard, J.J. and Rickey, I'm not quite sure who I am looking at. Thanks. By the way that was some Saints game tonight, huh?
Doris
USA - Monday, December 27, 2010 at 22:05:23 (MST)
MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE! Precious picture, Doris! Looks like your reunion was a lot of fun, fellows. I'm leaving tonight to spend a week with my grandchildren in California. Hope the weather is better than we are having today. I hope the peace, joy, and happiness of the Christmas season remains with all of you throughout the new year.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, December 25, 2010 at 15:32:59 (MST)
MERRY CHRISTMAS !
J. J. Erny <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
Larose, La USA - Saturday, December 25, 2010 at 10:07:28 (MST)
Thanks to Rickey for organizing this great Mini Reunion, and to Gerald and Pat for taking the pictures. I hear that Pat took most the pictures, that's why she in NOT in the photos!!!! Grrrrrr.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
USA - Friday, December 24, 2010 at 03:36:50 (MST)
Rickey you did a great job. I hope you come out ok. God bless you.
j. j. erny
USA - Thursday, December 23, 2010 at 11:51:01 (MST)
Ho Ho Ho. O.P. has an early Christmas present. I just sent him 3 group and 14 individual pics for posting on the class web site. That's a small contribution to what he has done for us. Merry Christmas buddy.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Thursday, December 23, 2010 at 09:26:39 (MST)
OK where are some photos from last night? I know Rickey told me he forgot his camera, but surely not all of you are that forgetful! Someone should have had a camera!
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
USA - Thursday, December 23, 2010 at 08:04:37 (MST)
MERRY CHRISTMAS:
Merry Christmas from O. P. from Oliver Ditch on Vimeo.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Elkridge, MD USA - Thursday, December 23, 2010 at 04:36:22 (MST)
Hope you guys are having a great time at dinner tonight.. Merry Christmas to all.
Doris
USA - Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 20:31:01 (MST)
Hey guys tonight is the dinner at Bailey's at 6 PM. Hope to see all you your there tonight.
Rickey
USA - Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 08:19:17 (MST)
Chuck is getting better. His BP is much better and the swelling is going down. He is keeping ice packs on the neck. That is doing the job. He had a much better night last night. Thanks again for the prayers.
Doris
USA - Monday, December 20, 2010 at 16:46:51 (MST)
UPDATE: Keep praying. Chuck had a rough night last night. His blood Pressure went even higher and he had a difficult time breathing because the neck is swelling. They are applying ice now. Thanks for the prayers.
Doris
USA - Sunday, December 19, 2010 at 09:16:17 (MST)
Thanks for the prayers everyone. The surgery went just fine, even though the Dr. said it was more extensive than what he thought. Chuck came home yesterday and is resting well. His blood pressure is a little high, but the neck is doing alright.
Doris
USA - Sunday, December 19, 2010 at 07:42:47 (MST)
Doris, how is Chuck?
Brenda <`>
USA - Friday, December 17, 2010 at 14:48:39 (MST)
Thanks, Brenda, he says that is all that he wants, it doesn't matter if his range of motion for his head is dissabled, he just wants no pain. Poor thing he has been in a lot of pain. Too young for this to happen.
Doris
USA - Thursday, December 16, 2010 at 06:06:39 (MST)
Doris, I pray that the results of the surgery is a pain-free life!
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, December 15, 2010 at 20:50:30 (MST)
PRAYER REQUEST: Chuck, our oldest son, is having surgery Fri. morning. He is having three vertebra fused and bone spurs cleaned off in his neck. It will be a long surgery. Please keep him in your prayers. Thanks.
Doris
USA - Wednesday, December 15, 2010 at 19:51:24 (MST)
Congrats Harvey on Superman grandson!!!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Wednesday, December 15, 2010 at 03:56:57 (MST)
For any of you all trying to recall Ann Bienvenu Richard (Mrs. James Lee "Jimmy" Richard), Ann is pictured under 1985 Reunion 2, Photo 3.jpg. Ann was from Rayne, and I met her at S.L.I. around 1956-57. They had one daughter, Lisa, and a son, Jimmy II, of Carencro.
Henrietta
USA - Tuesday, December 14, 2010 at 11:33:56 (MST)
Darling baby boy, Harvey!! Hope no pipes froze last night. It's as cold now as it was hot this summer!
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, December 14, 2010 at 07:27:20 (MST)
Suzanne, what a beautiful baby and joy at Christmastime! Today, Paul and I attended Ann Bienvenu Richard’s (Jimmy Richard, deceased, Class of 1955) funeral at St. Joseph’s Church in Rayne. Do you remember her? Ann had attended our Cathedral-Carmel Class Reunions, and was our brother-in-law Buddy Moody’s half sister. Ann, Claire Moody, Carol Moody and I were married around 1958, and within a year we each had a baby girl. The ceremony was beautiful, and the priest addressed the crowd as Ann might have done so: “Grieve for a while if you must, but then go on to happier thoughts.” May she rest in peace.
Henrietta
USA - Monday, December 13, 2010 at 19:49:13 (MST)
I forgot to say, Sue. Of course she is beautiful. She has such good genes, just look at her great grandmother!!!!!!
Doris
USA - Sunday, December 12, 2010 at 16:00:31 (MST)
Congratulations, Sue. How many Great grandchildren do you have now???
Doris
USA - Sunday, December 12, 2010 at 15:59:21 (MST)
Congratulations Suzanne!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Sunday, December 12, 2010 at 03:12:07 (MST)
Your great grandchild is pretty cute, Suzanne!
Brenda
USA - Saturday, December 11, 2010 at 07:28:38 (MST)
Rickey. Lita and I will be there on the 22nd. No portrait. No email, my email is on the fritz.
J. J.
J. J. Erny
Grand Isle, USA - Thursday, December 02, 2010 at 10:02:30 (MST)
Happy Anniversary Shirley and O.P. May you have many more.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Saturday, November 27, 2010 at 11:05:13 (MST)
Agree Brenda! The DJ's seem to like it too. Should be a hit!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Friday, November 26, 2010 at 03:41:30 (MST)
Check out this new Christmas song. It's an original and the best Christmas song to come out in years, I think. http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=pPViKJRHyZo&vq=medium
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, November 24, 2010 at 10:42:10 (MST)
Thanks for info about Donald, Gerald...I'll try to visit him when I'm in for Christmas.
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Tuesday, November 23, 2010 at 04:09:21 (MST)
Sorry to hear about Ray. Prayers are forthcoming. Visited Donald this afternoon. He is at Maison De Lafayette on Kaliste Saloom Rd. in room 720. Happened to catch Essie there. He looked very good with his short buzz cut and remembered me instantly. Last time I saw him he was in the Hospital and we bet on the LSU Florida game and he won. Gave him $20.00 today and we bet on the LSU Arkansas game. He made the line at LSU -7 and I took them. His room is a suite and very roomy and nice. He really seems happy. Hope he remembers to pay if he losses. If he beats me again know one will know about it. Ha!
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Monday, November 22, 2010 at 15:44:18 (MST)
So sorry to hear about Ray. He will be in my prayers.
Doris
USA - Sunday, November 21, 2010 at 20:22:10 (MST)
Prayer request. I got a call for Jane, Ray Domengeaux's wife, this morning. Ray's mind (memory) had gotten so bad, she had to put him in a 'lock down' nursing home. She asked me to inform everyone. Please keep them in your prayers.
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Friday, November 19, 2010 at 11:20:10 (MST)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PATSY! Hope it was a lovely day!
Brenda
USA - Sunday, November 14, 2010 at 20:09:05 (MST)
I think Rickey would be considered a Veteran even technically O.P., because the two weeks he went to 'camp' every year is considered active duty.
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Friday, November 12, 2010 at 03:16:29 (MST)
Technically, you have to serve on "active duty" to be a "Veteran" according to US Code, but I'm giving Rickey the credit for 9 years.
FEDERAL DEFINITION: under Federal Law a VETERAN is any person, who served honorably on active duty in the armed forces of the United States. (Discharges marked GENERAL AND UNDER HONORABLE CONDITIONS also qualify.)
O. P. Ditch
USA - Thursday, November 11, 2010 at 09:10:49 (MST)
Did you guys know that Rickey is a Veteran? I made him get out his discharge from the National Guard. He is a 9 year Veteran of the Louisiana National Guard. So he is a Veteran but has never considered himself one. Today, I proclaim him a a patriot along with other Veterans.
O.P. <Opditch@gmail.com>
USA - Thursday, November 11, 2010 at 07:26:36 (MST)
HAPPY VETERAN'S DAY to all you veterans out there. Thank you so much for your unselfish service for our country.
Doris
USA - Thursday, November 11, 2010 at 06:48:02 (MST)
Right on Larry, plus he out coached Saban, so who would you get to replace him?
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Thursday, November 11, 2010 at 04:36:19 (MST)
I think with 2 National Championships,an 8-1 record and a 3 Million + salary,she should put a little cotton in her ears.
Larry
USA - Tuesday, November 09, 2010 at 11:53:57 (MST)
We heard that Les's wife is very unhappy with the criticism and wants to leave LSU.
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, November 09, 2010 at 06:46:24 (MST)
He is not clapping. He is trying to count.
J. J. Erny <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
Larose, La USA - Tuesday, November 09, 2010 at 04:07:07 (MST)
He is not clapping. He trying to count.
J. J. Erny <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
Larose, La USA - Tuesday, November 09, 2010 at 04:04:33 (MST)
With his fingers wide apart. Never saw anyone else clap like that!
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Monday, November 08, 2010 at 10:54:31 (MST)
Well, actually, he claps funny.
Brenda
USA - Sunday, November 07, 2010 at 09:45:35 (MST)
Please, no cracks about Les Miles nor Jefferson! Great game!!
Brenda
USA - Sunday, November 07, 2010 at 09:40:08 (MST)
We won but he still can not tell time.
J. J. Erny <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
Laose, La USA - Sunday, November 07, 2010 at 04:47:54 (MST)
We won but he still can not tell time.
J. J. Erny <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
Laose, La USA - Sunday, November 07, 2010 at 04:47:37 (MST)
Hey guys, the photographer has cmmitted to our dinner. She will take portraits of any couples who wish to have pictures taken. It will be a good Christmas gift for your families. Am sure looking forward to the dinner. Will keep you posted.
Rickey
USA - Wednesday, November 03, 2010 at 04:32:49 (MST)
Yes he did.Also Rufus Mouisett.He played football at SLI.
Larry
USA - Monday, November 01, 2010 at 19:27:17 (MST)
Sounds like a hot bed for great baseball players. Didn't Jimmy Dutel live around there also?
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Monday, November 01, 2010 at 10:51:38 (MST)
No.Steve was a few years younger.We lived in the same neighborhood along with Ron Guidry by St Anthony Church.
Larry Miller
USA - Saturday, October 30, 2010 at 07:19:29 (MST)
Larry did you ever play baseball with Steve or was he too young? When Pat and I were at Eglin AFB in the early 60's Steve and Charley Trusdale were playing in the minor leagues for the Senators organization in Pencacola, Fla.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Friday, October 29, 2010 at 11:01:06 (MST)
Error...that should be larmil@cox.net
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Wednesday, October 27, 2010 at 05:30:27 (MST)
Larry, thanks for the info about Steve Brackin. Did your email address change? My email to you came back! The last address I have for you is lmrmil@cox.net
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Wednesday, October 27, 2010 at 04:21:27 (MST)
Some of you may remember Steve Brackin.He passed away this morning.Had two sisters-Pat and Jeanne and brother Gene.
Larry Miller
USA - Tuesday, October 26, 2010 at 12:41:52 (MST)
Saw Secretariet today. Rickey was right a very true human interest story filmed in Acadiana.
Recognized Blackham Colisuum & Prejean's restaurent.
Worth seeing.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Sunday, October 24, 2010 at 15:51:48 (MST)
Great idea about the photographer Rickey. I am assuming that we will have an evening gathering at Bailey's? My office Christmas lunch is that day and I have to be there. If you need a contribution toward the photo taking count me in. Watched the LSU game yesterday and saw the biggest and fastest QB that I have ever seen and he is a Junior. If he keeps that up he is a show-in for the Heismen. I hope so because it will be the late time LSU will have to deal with that phenom. The pro's will through a bunch of money his way,I'm sure.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Sunday, October 24, 2010 at 08:07:07 (MST)
JJ, it time for you to get back like you used to be. I know you are ready to put all this aside. You know getting old is not for the weak. Let's hope this does make you feel better. I am looking forward to seeing you on Dec. 22nd. I think I will try to get a photographer to attend and maybe take pictures of couples who want to take a picture of them and there wives. It should be something special. Larry do you think Kathy would be insterested? I don't think she will come if you don't. Oh by the way Larry UL's baseball world series start Monday at 6 o'clock. I wonder if you son will be calling any of the games.
Rickey
USA - Sunday, October 24, 2010 at 04:56:38 (MST)
Marshall you are up early this morning. I think you said that you have a session this week. If it is God Bless. I know it will be a great one. Things are going well for the Dec. 22 dinner. OP is helping me with it. I really don't think he will come down for this but I still have hopes. It's kinda close to Chistmas for the out of town people to come. I will be doing more around the 22nd of Novemner. Looking forward to seeing you.
Rickey
USA - Saturday, October 23, 2010 at 04:27:32 (MST)
Good to hear that the ole ticker is back in rythum JJ! Did you have to go to N.O. for this proceedure? Or do the smaller hospitals now have this sophisticated equipment? Hope you have many more years of catching Bull Reds on Grand Isle!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Saturday, October 23, 2010 at 03:05:40 (MST)
Good for you, J.J. Hope you are in good shape from now on!
brenda
USA - Friday, October 22, 2010 at 20:29:19 (MST)
Last Wednesday I went into the table. They hooked me up to electrodes, a lot of electrodes. They put me to sleep and then turned on the juice. I woke up with burns of my chest and back. The told me that this would happen. I woke up and five years of atrial fribulation had stopped. I now have a regular heart beat. The told me that it might not last and I may have to have it again. I feel so good. I guess, from the happy juice that they used to put me to sleep.
J. J. Erny
USA - Friday, October 22, 2010 at 18:49:24 (MST)
With all of the cameras flashing at our little reunion, I thought sure that there would be more pictures sent in for all to see. Girls, please send in your photos before it is old news. thanks!
Brenda
USA - Friday, October 22, 2010 at 10:22:42 (MST)
I thought for awhile McNeese would beat the Tigers. The game was a lot closer than I thought it would be. It turned out to be a pretty good game. Next week will be a lot tougher. I didn't get to see the whole game but read about it on the internet this morning. What's happening to all the classmate that use to write to the webpage?
Rickey
USA - Sunday, October 17, 2010 at 02:34:29 (MST)
For those of you who go to the movies go see ' Secretariat". It's a good clean movie. Part of it was filmed at the old Evangeline Downs. No sex, no cussing just a plain good old fasion movie. I would recommend it highly.
Rickey
USA - Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 04:31:08 (MST)
Doris I understand that Monique was born with a small heart? They were trying to give her a new valve with the surgery. I just read in the Obit on Monique that she was 45 not 42 as I reported. My apologies
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Englewood, FL USA - Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 03:51:37 (MST)
So sorry to hear about Ray's daughter. It's tragic to lose a child at any age!
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 19:51:12 (MST)
I am so sorry to hear about Ray's daughter. That is just too young. Did she have a congenial heart problem?
Doris
USA - Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 18:27:07 (MST)
What a shock. Thanks for letting us know Marshall. Will be looking at the obits to see when the arrangements will be made.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 15:59:27 (MST)
I'm afraid I have some sad news to share! Monique, Ray and Myra Mouton's daughter died from complications following heart surgery...she was only 42 years old. Please remember them in your prayers. I will offer my Mass tomorrow for the peaceful repose of her soul from all of you!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Englewood, FL USA - Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 10:00:00 (MST)
We had a great time in Louisiana this week-end. Wonderful to spend time with our precious grandbaby who is 10 months old now. Got to see my Fla. daughter,Pennye, again. But the BEST part, was having lunch with my DEAR, DEAR, FRIENDS. I just wish I could do it more often. Sue, I will be trying my hardest to take you up on that offer. Thanks a million to Brenda and Henrietta for doing this. And to you Henrietta for the coffee and dessert after the lunch. FUN, FUN.
Doris
USA - Sunday, October 10, 2010 at 14:30:32 (MST)
My new attitude worked until the end of the game. It did make my blood pressure go up but at least LSU played a football game for the first time this season. The two quarterback system seemed to work well. Miles is a lucky man today. Thanks to Brenda and Hernietta for a lovely lunch yesterday. It was fun visiting with everybody.
Suzanne
USA - Sunday, October 10, 2010 at 08:15:59 (MST)
Larry, I agree. I fell asleep on the game last night and didn't see the end, but from what I read this morning it was a squeaker. I don't know how Miles doesn't have a heart attack. He sure is stuck on Jefferson. Lee does quiet well playing QB. With all the talk about getting rid of him I don't think the chances are very good. He just signed a 10 million contract and they can't afford to pay it out and hire a new coach. Oh well it doesn't put anything in my pocket. Hey Larry I hope you can get someone to sub for you bowling so you can make the Dec. 22nd dinner.
Suzanne how did you do with this game. Did you new attitude work?
Rickey
USA - Sunday, October 10, 2010 at 06:12:53 (MST)
U N B L I E V A B L E
Larry
USA - Saturday, October 09, 2010 at 20:24:07 (MST)
We had a lovely time today at lunch and then, at Henrietta's. I think everyone there EXCEPT me had a camera. Someone will be posting pictures soon. Unfortunately someone is missing in every picture because we had no extra person to take pictures. Those present were: Doris,Fern, Maugie, Carleen, Cile, Patsy, Minette, Loretta, Mary, Suzanne, Henrietta and Brenda. We missed those who were unable to attend and read letters from those who wrote their regrets: Mary Elizabeth, Halina and Mary Alice.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, October 09, 2010 at 15:38:26 (MST)
You're right, Marshall. Who would have thought that spreading BArbara's words about Charlene throughout the world would happen like that? God uses all to His good.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, October 09, 2010 at 06:07:13 (MST)
Isn't it a shame that some people will go thru more trouble stealing something rather than doing it themselves? Rickey, tell Barbara that I am sorry about her book being stoken in India, but like it is said in AA all the time, "everything happens for a reason!" Perhaps this is what's needed to get the word to the Vatican about little Charlene...and getting her canonized!!! Then Barbara will win in the end!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Friday, October 08, 2010 at 03:23:51 (MST)
Brenda, what two great pictures. Of course it's easier when you have such a beautiful subject. It almost looks like it was taken by a professional. Hope you win the contest. Let us know what calander it's going to be on because we might want to buy it. I know that Doris will get one so she can paint some of the pictures. Barbara got some disturbing new the other day. She was looiking up her name on goggle and she found out that someone in India has reprinted her book and is selling it in several counntries. It would cost too much to seek legal actions so we will have to let it go. Hope you girls have a good time at your luncheon. Like there is chance ya'll won't.
Rickey
USA - Thursday, October 07, 2010 at 08:19:19 (MST)
Just a reminder that the Mt. Carmel "girls" will meet at Carrabas, 2010 Kaliste Saloom Rd. on Saturday, October 9, at 11:30 a.m. After, we will go to Henrietta's for dessert and coffee. There will be a big turnout from all of the responses! See you Saturday.
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, October 06, 2010 at 18:04:54 (MST)
Sure, Doris, you can paint Snowball and John. Elizabeth took both pictures. About the calendar contest, I don't know when they will announce the winner. I heard from them after i sent in the teaparty picture because you had to write something about the dog that you adopted from YELP. They said it had to be only 50 words and mine was too long. they asked if they could shorten it and so I said yes. I don't know what that means regarding the final pick. I love the Snowball picture too.
Brenda`
USA - Tuesday, October 05, 2010 at 18:52:53 (MST)
Brenda,those pictures are too too precious. I love the one of John and Snowball, do I have your permission to paint it? Well, tell us did they pick one of the pictures or both of them?
Doris
USA - Monday, October 04, 2010 at 19:20:00 (MST)
Wow, LSU did it again. Huh? Couldn't watch the game. I was watching my grandson loose his game. We had three games yesterday and all three boys lost their game. Not good in that Provost house!!!! Yes, O.P. we have 3 great grandchildren and will soon have 2 more. By March we will have 11 grand children and 5 great grandchildren. We'll have to soon just send cards at christmas!!!
Doris
USA - Sunday, October 03, 2010 at 08:36:28 (MST)
Coaches: One can not tell time and the other can not count. This tells you something?
J. J. Erny <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
Larose, La USA - Sunday, October 03, 2010 at 08:07:41 (MST)
BRAIN SURGERY ON MILES WOULD BE AN OUTPATIENT PROCEDURE.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Sunday, October 03, 2010 at 07:55:01 (MST)
I don't know about that JJ! Tulane beat Rutgers 17-14...that's stress...they usually loose! We better stick with ULL if we don't want any stress! Ha!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Sunday, October 03, 2010 at 04:02:50 (MST)
Miles can not manage the clock. Send Jefferson back to Central High and Bush to Manning’s quarter back camp. Become a Tulane fan no stress.
J. J. Erny <judgeerny@moblie tel.com>
Larose, La USA - Saturday, October 02, 2010 at 15:52:21 (MST)
Hey, I just found out that Rickey is now a GreatGrandPaw. Is anyone else in our class a Great Grand Paw or Maw? I think Doris is.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
ELKRIDGE, MD USA - Friday, October 01, 2010 at 05:10:53 (MST)
Happy Birthday to my oldest buddy O.P. He took off and saw the world. He did it his way. I wonder where he is having lunch today?
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Wednesday, September 29, 2010 at 04:05:19 (MST)
Example of a Flag Retirement Ceremony by Scouts:
http://www.louisianabulldog.com/americanlegionpost47/id39.html
O. P. Ditch
USA - Monday, September 27, 2010 at 05:43:17 (MST)
JJ and all, take your worn flags to almost any American Legion or VFW hall and they will properly dispose of them. Some Posts have formal ceremonies once a month where they burn the flags in a respectful and ceremonial event.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmai.com>
ELKRIDGE, MD USA - Monday, September 27, 2010 at 05:35:24 (MST)
I just heard some startling news! My daughter-in-law published a book that is a textbook in Byzantine iconography. The book is called; Icons And Power: The Mother of God in Byzantium by Bissera V. Pentcheva. Anyway, it won the Prisker Prize for literature this year and when people tried to buy it it was sold out. So now, the price for the book is $1,000 for ONE copy. By the way, we own a copy.
Brenda
USA - Thursday, September 23, 2010 at 14:33:07 (MST)
Wow, Rickey, that sounds like a good idea!
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, September 22, 2010 at 06:58:03 (MST)
Brenda, I had the same problem. I ended up putting some hooks under the roof and now I hang my flag fomr them. I have no trouble with it now. You know the flag with the stars at the top and the rest of the flag hanging down. It looks pretty good.
Rickey
USA - Wednesday, September 22, 2010 at 04:49:14 (MST)
Our flag holder never lasts long in the brick wall because the flag, flapping back and forth in the wind, loosens it and it comes out. John has tried everything.
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, September 21, 2010 at 15:20:04 (MST)
JJ I used to offer to clean American Flags the week of the 4th of July. I didn't get any takers but I got a lot of gripes about I was not supposed to clean American Flags. Well that was the last time I tried to do that. JJ what you should fly is the Battle Flag. You know the very large one. Just think how impressive it would be. It would only cost you about $4000.00 dollars. That's not counting the new flagpole.
Rickey
USA - Tuesday, September 21, 2010 at 05:41:28 (MST)
Henrietta, I have a flag made out of nylon that has been waving since we moved into our new house over 5 years ago. It looks a little weathered but still in one piece. Go Saints.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Monday, September 20, 2010 at 13:34:11 (MST)
J.J., the Boy Scouts have a ceremony to destroy old, worn flags. You might locate a Boy Scout troop in your area, that will be happy to help you properly get rid of your old flags. And this is good training for the Scouts. Also, I wonder if they make flags out of nylon, that might be more durable in the wind.
Henrietta Boriskie
USA - Sunday, September 19, 2010 at 17:19:05 (MST)
Every year I go through 3 or four U. S. flags. The wind tears them up and they look like rags. What do I do about the torn flags. I burn them; but I was told that is improper. What do you do with your wind torn flags?
J. J. Erny <judgeerny@mobiletel.cp,>
Larose, La USA - Sunday, September 19, 2010 at 16:13:16 (MST)
Does anyone have any address or phone number on Roland LeBlanc. The number I have has been disconected. I understand he moved into his daughter's house a while back and I don't have anything on that. Let me know and I'll bring the class up to date with it.
Rickey
USA - Saturday, September 18, 2010 at 06:21:51 (MST)
Correction on the get-together in December. We will have the spouses alone. Someone said do you relaize the people whos wives have to help them. If you don't invite the wives they probably won't be able to attend. I agree so the spouses will be invited. I need to update the address for the class.
Rickey
USA - Friday, September 17, 2010 at 07:16:29 (MST)
The date is set for December 22 at Bailey's Resturant on Johnston St at 6 PM. I will contact all the class later. Gerald you can tell all the classmates that you want to. Let me know who you have contacted.
Rickey
USA - Thursday, September 16, 2010 at 23:37:20 (MST)
Just came home from a lovely gormet dinner and dancing in Houston. Our son Chuck and his wife took us to celebrate our 55th Anniversary which is tomorrow. Can't believe it's been that long. Charles actually danced two dances with me, Yeah!!! It was a really special evening..
doris
USA - Thursday, September 16, 2010 at 20:49:44 (MST)
I'm in Rickey for any of the three dates. When you are sure of the date let us know the time and place and I'll pass the word to as many class-mates as I can find.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Thursday, September 16, 2010 at 12:53:23 (MST)
Marshall has given me 3 dates in December for a dinner for the class. Howard has writen to me and if anyone would like to get together the Dates are Dec. 20,21, and 22. That's a Monday thru Wed. If anyone is insterested I will plan it for the class. It will be just us guys for a change. Let me know. Howard let me know which you would like the best. As for me any of those days will be fine.
Rickey
USA - Thursday, September 16, 2010 at 09:48:18 (MST)
Grandchildren are wonderful, aren't they, Harvey?
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, September 15, 2010 at 18:10:59 (MST)
Congratulations Harvey!!!!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Englewood, FL USA - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at 23:48:15 (MST)
Harvey Charles Broussard became a grandfather for the first time yesterday. His son Neal and his wife had a baby boy named Benjamin Patton. Mother, Father and grandfather are all doing fine. He must have the record for the oldest first time grandfather in our class?
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at 14:11:19 (MST)
Just brought my granddaughter, to see "Nanny McPhee." The best I can say for this movie is that 10 year old Grace liked it.
Brenda
USA - Sunday, September 12, 2010 at 13:40:04 (MST)
Yep, Mt. Carmel class of '55 is getting together for lunch on Oct. 9 and then at Henrietta's for coffee and desert. E-mail me for details, if you haven't gotten them.
Brenda <Jatkin19321@cox.net>
USA - Wednesday, September 08, 2010 at 07:16:47 (MST)
Does anyone know what JJ is talking about in October If there is something going that I don't know about will someone tell me about it. I seem to remember Brenda or someone say something about the girls having something going on. Please let me know. Hey guys do you want to have a little get together? If I get enough response I will plan something.Let me know.
Rickey
USA - Wednesday, September 08, 2010 at 05:14:07 (MST)
Oh! Are we still on for October ?
J. J. Erny
USA - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 at 16:31:13 (MST)
L.S.U. fans are too up tight. Become a Tulane fan and never suffer from disappointment.
J. J. Erny
USA - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 at 16:29:52 (MST)
Brenda, Barbara and I went to see Get Low. We almost didn't. I just happened to see it and we didn't have anything else to do so we went. Did you know it a true story. I'm with you about Robert Duval. I don't care much for Murry. I did see him in a few movies that I liked him in. Oh well the American is up for this afternoon. We try to go every Tuesday. Bargain day.
Rickey
USA - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 at 06:54:00 (MST)
Did anyone see the Navy-Maryland game. Unbelieveable. I didn't think one team sould fumble that many time so close to the goal. After that I don't think the Tigers were that bad. You have to give it the Maryland they stood fast when it counted. Well tonight starts the Pros. A doubleheader. One game on at 7 and the other one starts at 9:30 OP you won't get to see the second game. Probably not too many of us will if any.
Rickey
USA - Tuesday, September 07, 2010 at 06:50:35 (MST)
I watched it to the bitter end. Thank God for DVR's. LSU always struggles away from tiger stadium and in the afternoon there. So if I go this year it will be a night game and much cooler. Poor U.L.L. they just can't overcome being very average. Our only salvation is dem who dats.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Sunday, September 05, 2010 at 13:02:00 (MST)
Rickey, when you're hot, you're hot and when you're not, you're NOT. I think they forgot that the game has two halfs. It's going to be a long season!
Suzanne
USA - Sunday, September 05, 2010 at 06:47:49 (MST)
I think it will be a very long season for the Tigers. I hope Miles doesn't have a lot of money in house. Well my Cajuns didn't do too well either. I don't think that anyone expected them to win. It sure would have been nice. I guess we will have the same season we always do. Maybe LSU will hire Bustle when we let him go. All you guys remember when we were at SLI and they were in a rebuilding year. Well it still haven't gotten any better. They are still rebuilding. I think the grandchildren of the players in 55 are on the rebuilding now. OH well we will just have to see.
Sorry Suzanne I know I stepted on you toes because I know what kinf of LSU fan you are. It's just my opinion.
Rickey
USA - Sunday, September 05, 2010 at 06:35:47 (MST)
Hey LSU fans,what was the name of the Saint you prayed thru tonight?????
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Saturday, September 04, 2010 at 21:01:26 (MST)
We went to see "Get Low" with Robert Duvall and Bill Murray, two of my favorite actors. I hope it's still playing because it's really a quality movie.
Brenda
USA - Friday, September 03, 2010 at 06:12:09 (MST)
Larry his precentage completion during the regular season last year was a little better that than 70%. That's 7 out of 10 on average in every game. That's amazing.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Monday, August 30, 2010 at 06:28:06 (MST)
Would you please explain your statement? He completes 7 0f 10 in a quarter sometimes.
Larry
USA - Saturday, August 28, 2010 at 17:21:18 (MST)
It's hard to believe that in the regular season last year Drew Brees completed 7 of 10 passes. That must be a record?
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Saturday, August 28, 2010 at 14:04:30 (MST)
How about those SAINTS??????
Doris
USA - Friday, August 27, 2010 at 20:33:12 (MST)
Hee Hee Hee!
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, August 25, 2010 at 13:31:28 (MST)
They are caching shrimp on Grand Isle again. They are very inexpensive. You do not even have to buy oil to fry them.
J. J. Erny <judgeerny@ mobile tel.com>
Larose, La USA - Wednesday, August 25, 2010 at 08:37:47 (MST)
Rickey I think you are correct about Charles Smith being in some kind of special program. But you are also right in the fact that he graduated with us, so he must have been with Earl and Pat in some things and with the rest of us in other things. I don't think the school had to follow as 'strictly' the State Laws as they have to now. They were more free to 'fabricate' a program to meet the needs of individual students. "The good old days!"
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Monday, August 23, 2010 at 15:10:43 (MST)
I visited Donald several weeks ago and he seemed to be doing well. He is sleeping more now adays but it could be the meds he is taking. He remembers things of the past well and not so well the present. All in all he seems content where he is at Rosewood behind Ruby's restaurant on Rue Louie the XIV. He can have visitors so drop by and see him Rickey.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Monday, August 23, 2010 at 10:22:51 (MST)
I sent the last message too soon.
Marshall I'm sorry I didn't call you to tell you about Pat Roy. I kenw he was in a nursing home and wasn't doing well but when he died I forget to tell you. Dan thanks for the phone call. We don't hear from you often enough.
I see the girls are having a mini reunion. Maybe we guys should get together and do the same. Just us guys. Let me know if anyone is insterested.
Gerald how is Donald?
Rickey
USA - Monday, August 23, 2010 at 08:16:13 (MST)
I have touble remembering that they were not members of our class. Wasn't Charles Smith another one? I know he was with us at graduation but I can't seem to remember him in class with us.
Rickey
USA - Monday, August 23, 2010 at 08:10:40 (MST)
Attention Mt. Carmel Class of '55! Save the date of October 9th for a class reunion/lunch--location to be announced. Bring your family pictures and anything else you would like to share. Some out-of-town classmates are planning on coming, so I hope you can come also. More information follows.
Brenda <Jatkin19321@cox.net>
USA - Sunday, August 22, 2010 at 19:45:36 (MST)
I think Pat and Earl graduated the summer before we graduated. They were in a special program that Cathedral had at that time! Yes they were always faithful in attending our mini class reunions! Thanks for telling us about Pat's passing! I missed his Obit. Will offer mass for the peaceful repose of his soul.
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Sunday, August 22, 2010 at 03:04:33 (MST)
I think Pat and Earl graduated the summer before we graduated. They were in a special program that Cathedral had at that time! Yes they were always faithful in attending our mini class reunions! Thanks for telling us about Pat's passing! I missed his Obit. Will offer mass for the peaceful repose of his soul.
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Sunday, August 22, 2010 at 03:04:25 (MST)
Ran into Earl Arnould a couple of days ago and noticed immediately how good he looked. He told me he is 76 and I did not know he was that much older than us. He also told me that Pat Roy was seriousely ill and I noticed that he passed last Thursday. I don't believe Pat or Earl graduated with us. I think the year before, but they came to many of our class reunions.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Saturday, August 21, 2010 at 13:28:00 (MST)
We've GOT to move on.
Brenda
USA - Friday, August 20, 2010 at 11:58:07 (MST)
Brenda, Your enduring Mass today embodies Mother Teresa's motto "To give until it hurts." Hope you offered this sacrifice of the Mass for a good intention. We viewed relics of beatified Mother Teresa recently in Lafayette, commemorating her upcoming 100th birthday -- her old, worn leather sandals impressed me the most. Her local Missionaries of Charity nuns were there. My granddaughter used to call them the "munchkins."
Henrietta
USA - Saturday, August 14, 2010 at 15:50:57 (MST)
This afternoon I went to mass in a small chapel and there were about 35 people there. The air condition was out and it was sweltering. I thought I wouldn't be able to make it until the end and I thought about all of the people in situations where they can't leave and it is over 100 degrees. I guess today was what you might call "the sacrifice of the mass."
Brenda
USA - Saturday, August 14, 2010 at 15:01:46 (MST)
Thanks for the well wishes. Go Saints!
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 16:16:21 (MST)
HaPpY BiRtHdAy tO yOu, GeRaLd! HaPpY bIrThDaY tO yOu!
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 06:32:48 (MST)
Wake up everyone!! it is Happy Birthday to Gerald!!
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Elkridge, MD USA - Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 05:59:39 (MST)
J.J., you make me laugh. Your insight is a thing of beauty!
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Thursday, August 05, 2010 at 14:47:28 (MST)
Over 100 of BP’s beach workers were sent home. They failed the drug test. I wonder, can some one under the influence of drugs be trusted to tick up tar balls and put throw them in a dumpster?
J. J. Erny <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
USA - Tuesday, August 03, 2010 at 17:29:50 (MST)
It is so hot these days. I think we could bar-b-que meat by merely opening the grill towards the sun without any fire beneath.
Brenda
USA - Monday, August 02, 2010 at 07:15:33 (MST)
Poor Julian and his family!!! They really need our prayers.
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, July 27, 2010 at 11:06:48 (MST)
I spoke to Fr. Blessing our pastor and asked him about Julian and he told me that he has had another stroke. It's a small one but he is in the hospital new, or at least he was Saturday. If I hear anything else I will put it on the class web page
Rickey
USA - Tuesday, July 27, 2010 at 08:58:54 (MST)
I spoke to Fr. Blessing our pastor and asked him about Julian and he told me that he has had another stroke. It's a small one but he is in the hospital new, or at least he was Saturday. If I hear anything else I will put it on the class web page
Rickey
USA - Tuesday, July 27, 2010 at 08:58:53 (MST)
Thanks Henrietta for the well wishes on our 50th. I measured my large oak and it is almost 4 feet wide. According to the minimum propotions you gave me It would be much less than 50 years old. Hope we are around to register it 25 years from now?
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Monday, July 26, 2010 at 14:19:29 (MST)
Gerald and Pat, Congratulations on your golden anniversary! To answer your question, our tree will be 75 years old in the year 2056, and then eligible to join the Live Oak Society. The Live Oak Society promotes the culture, distribution, preservation and appreciation of the live oak tree, and was founded in 1934 by Dr. Stephens, the first president of SLI. A Junior League Tree is about eight feet to sixteen feet wide (usually 75 years old), and a Centenarian is sixteen feet (100 or more years old – such as the St. John Oak in Lafayette). The Live Oak Society has 6225 members (trees) in 14 states and is under the auspices of the Louisiana Garden Club Federation, Inc. I heard dues are one acorn per year. You may read more under louisianagardenclubs.org. I maintain its webpage for Lafayette Garden Club, District III, under Clubs.
Henrietta
USA - Monday, July 26, 2010 at 12:40:51 (MST)
Thanks Doris. We were so fortunate to be able to celebrate our 50th with so many friends and family present. The video was the icing on the cake as they say. Now my next wish is a greatgrand child and then I can begin thinking abour shooting my age on the golf course? Life is good!
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Monday, July 26, 2010 at 05:28:19 (MST)
Gerald I just loved your Anniversary Video. My son made one for us too using the same song!!! I just love mine. I really enjoyed watching yours almost as much as I enjoy watching mine. Your babies were just precious, all of them. Don't we all have such beautiful babies????
Doris
USA - Sunday, July 25, 2010 at 19:58:44 (MST)
Thanks for thinking of us Brenda. Pat and I celebrated our 50th on 1/23/10 with friends and family present for and old fashion fais deaux deaux. Father Calais was able to be there and blessed us as he did when we were engaged (the only one he ever did) and the marrage over 50 years ago. Visited Donald yesterday and he understood 90% of everything I brought up but is staying in bed too much. Henrietta what is the significence of your 74 year old tree? We have two live oaks one small one in the front and one large one in the back. Do they need to be registered? Help.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Sunday, July 25, 2010 at 12:38:29 (MST)
Brenda I know you and John don't want to go far, but if ya'll haven't been to Nova Scotia that would be a great trip. Another nice trip is going to Mt. Rushmore and see all the things that are close by. If you need more give me a call because Barbara and I have been to a lot of places.
Rickey
USA - Sunday, July 25, 2010 at 04:25:02 (MST)
Thanks, Henrietta, but the couple you could be congratulating are Gerald and Pat who are celebrating their 50th this year. At least, I think they are, judging from that lovely tribute that one of their grandsons put together for their celebration. I saw it on Facebook. Congratulations, Gerald and Pat! I wish you many more happy years.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, July 24, 2010 at 18:52:31 (MST)
Brenda, congratulations to you and John on your 49th wedding anniversary. Is the huge oak tree in your front yard a live oak? These are pretty durable. If it's a water oak, if you all don't cut it down, I'd sure keep it very well watered throughout the summer. During Hurricane Lily, a water oak fell on our roof, causing damage. I heard that water oaks have shallow roots and fall easier, especially if they're too dry. Our front yard live oak shades our home and front yard. Paul's Dad planted it when we bought our lot in 1982 -- I'm planning to keep this info with our house papers, so the occupant, in 2056, can register it with the Live Oak Society.
Henrietta
USA - Saturday, July 24, 2010 at 16:00:16 (MST)
Doris, we are celebrating our 49th next week. Marshall, we do need rain. Every time it rains, the next day or so, plants are drooping again. I was hoping that Bonnie would bring us rain. However, we have a huge oak tree in our front yard that might come down on our house during the next hurricane. It is the same type of oak as those that came down all over our neighborhood during Gustav. I have called and called City people to come look at it and tell us if we should take it down, but no one has come. The only people who have talked to us about it are tree cutters and they have motivation to cut it down. John doesn't want to cut it because it shades our house so much and our utility bill is never high in the summer.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, July 24, 2010 at 07:42:32 (MST)
Hope 'Bonnie' is as good to LA as it was to FL! We got a lot of needed rain but no wind! I understand you all don't need any more rain, but hopefully you all will not get any wind!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Saturday, July 24, 2010 at 03:43:04 (MST)
How about a cruise on the Inside Passage to Alaska? That would be pretty "cool" right about now.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Elkridge, MD USA - Saturday, July 24, 2010 at 02:21:25 (MST)
Brenda, are you and John celebrating your 50th anniversary this year? We are celebrating our 55th. Charles wants to go somewhere, also, but it is so hot, I can't think of anywhere that would be tempting right now. My daughter's and I are going on a girl's trip next week-end, but that is just to Galveston.
Doris
USA - Friday, July 23, 2010 at 19:20:55 (MST)
I received an email from Julien today. He has had a third stroke and asks for prayers.
Suzanne
USA - Monday, July 19, 2010 at 07:04:32 (MST)
You all might try DollyWood, or Branson.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Elkridge, MD USA - Sunday, July 18, 2010 at 03:25:51 (MST)
I would like to hear from you about a great place to go for a vacation. We want to drive and enjoy a place we've never been. In the past, we've driven to Los angeles, Palo Alto, Colorado, Arkansas, Georgia, Florida, Canyon Lake, Texas, and Washington, D.C. I don't want it to be so far this time, but different, with things to do. Any suggestions?
Brenda
USA - Saturday, July 17, 2010 at 07:27:03 (MST)
Nice video, O.P. Three of our grandchildren spent last week with us and it rained the whole week. Yesterday, I was already watering outside as it is so hot and dry. I'm sure they were happy to get back to California where summer is like our spring.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, July 17, 2010 at 06:08:05 (MST)
Mt. Carmel Feast Day today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRbejR6Mq3Q
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Elkridge, MD USA - Friday, July 16, 2010 at 03:34:36 (MST)
Congratulations, Spain!
Brenda
USA - Sunday, July 11, 2010 at 14:28:14 (MST)
Ok, we have moved. I will email the new snailmail address and home phone number to you rather than put it on the guestbook. I'll change it on the list when I get a chance. Lots and Lots of Boxes to unpack and find places for the stuff. Amazing!
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Elkridge, MD USA - Saturday, July 10, 2010 at 07:02:07 (MST)
Rickey, I'm so glad that you are keeping us up to date with all of the information you know. I'm sorry about losing your dear friend this week. It seems that we lose more and more as we get older. Martha saw Simon Chiasson at a funeral in Lafayette last weekend. He has had Parkinson's disease for over 20 years and is struggling with it. Prayers for all of those out of work during this time.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, July 10, 2010 at 06:06:16 (MST)
Today is Dale Gaudet's birthday and he is no in his fortys, or is it 39.
The person I requested prayers for yesterday died yesterday. She and her husband we probable our two closest friends in Lafayette.
Rickey
USA - Saturday, July 10, 2010 at 05:03:10 (MST)
Hey gang, today is the day OP and Shirley are moving to Maryland. They seem to be happy about the move. They will be a lot closer to his youngest son. That is the one who finished college at USL. Prayers are need for a very dear friend who is in the hospital with an anurism (?) and was thought she would die. We went to visit her yesterday and she seems a lot better. Her pastor from the Assembly of God was there and a very nice man. They will operate on her as soon a posible when her blood thins. She was on Plavix to thin her blood.
Prayers are needed thanks.
Rickey
USA - Friday, July 09, 2010 at 05:59:39 (MST)
Gerald you are right. We went on vacation together about 20 years ago. It was Shirley and OP's first time and we went to silver dollar city. We had a great time because we have gone there many times together. Shirley fell in love with the place. The class might think of getting together for a trip there. It would be a blast. We the four of us go I make all the reseveration and can usually get in the front of the theater. I understand there is a musical about Noah's ark. The have built a whole ark on the stage and use live animals. We have not seen it yet but when we go back we surly will. Keep that in mind and let me know if anyone is insterested.
Rickey
USA - Tuesday, July 06, 2010 at 06:59:39 (MST)
My hunch was correct! I had them as Barbara,Shirley,Rickey and OP!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Tuesday, July 06, 2010 at 03:03:32 (MST)
I think Shirley, Barbara, or Rickey (in that order) might have the best recollection of the story behind this photo. I'm guessing Gerald is close, but you know my memory...
O. P. Ditch <O. P. Ditch>
Woodbridge, VA USA - Tuesday, July 06, 2010 at 02:40:31 (MST)
I was wondering the same thing, Gerald. It's such a great picture and it must have a story behind it.
Brenda
USA - Monday, July 05, 2010 at 15:09:43 (MST)
We need detail on that clasic pic. I am guessing Branson Mo. 20 years ago?
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Monday, July 05, 2010 at 13:35:12 (MST)
The Cajun Hillbillies started my day off with a BIG smile! Better mark the back of that picture for
years to come. One day someone will be saying, "Who are these people"?
Patsy Franques
Lafayette , La. USA - Monday, July 05, 2010 at 06:46:37 (MST)
They certainly look familiar!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Monday, July 05, 2010 at 04:35:45 (MST)
Real Cajun Hillbillies??? see photo
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Woodbridge, VA USA - Monday, July 05, 2010 at 02:34:10 (MST)
Colombia celebrated the world cup by shipping a copy of it to Spain. It was made out of cocaine.
J. J.
USA - Saturday, July 03, 2010 at 16:56:12 (MST)
Colombia celebrated the world cup by shipping copy of is to Spain. It was made out of cocaine. Keep u its export market.
J. J.
USA - Saturday, July 03, 2010 at 16:54:31 (MST)
Congratulations, Germany!
Brenda
USA - Saturday, July 03, 2010 at 08:59:24 (MST)
Just want to inform everyone that Carroll Comeaux's mother Molly Comeaux passed yesterday. She was 98 and the funeral will be held in the chapel of Delhomme's at 10 A.M. tomorrow.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Thursday, July 01, 2010 at 17:07:25 (MST)
Good gracious, J.J.! What a family!
Brenda
USA - Thursday, July 01, 2010 at 09:37:17 (MST)
My family has been on vacation. My boys took their families across the gulf stream to Bimini in their 28 foot twin screw boats. I would have protested, except that twenty five years ago I made the same trip in a 23 foot single screw boat. They went diving on two sunken planes and the Bimini (Edgar Casey' Alantis) road and dove off of the grounded cement ship. My youngest grand daughter age 11 was all the way down and was driven off by sharks. When they go back to school, what tales to tell. Neither Lita and I dive. We are too old. My daughter rented a house for us in Key Largo and we stayed there and made side trips to Key West and the Glades. Daughter and here husband went diving.
J. J. <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
USA - Monday, June 28, 2010 at 14:17:14 (MST)
I don't guess we'll be playing soccer any time soon, but we can exercise our brains with these little games. The first one frustrated me no end and the second one seems to be easier for me. Check these out:
http://funstufftosee.com/frogleaptest.html AND
http://flashfabrica.com/f_learning/brain/brain.html
Brenda
USA - Friday, June 25, 2010 at 14:47:46 (MST)
I agree with J.J. It was helter skelter throughout the school ground burning up unexpended energy. No wonder the brothers allowed us to do this. I would not know anything about soccer if it weren't for my grand children. This year is the first year I am starting to know the rules and they are very different that any sport I have ever played. It's kind of like golf seems like the rules tend to be fair and accepting.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Friday, June 25, 2010 at 09:27:12 (MST)
Soccer at cathedral in grammar school was a time that we were let outside and we rioted kicking a ball around an often just kicking one another in the shins. No one told us the rules. I do not think those game- riots had rules.
J. J. Erny
USA - Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 07:30:59 (MST)
That soccer game was really exciting. I understand what you mean,Marshall. I wasn't into soccer until my grandchildren started playing and now I am still learning all the rules. Beau isn't able to play at this time because he has a fractured vertebre (L-5).That is a very bad place but he is young and they are hoping it will heal on its own. He got hit in a game several months ago. He plays on 2 teams in New Orleans, one traveling team and JV Jesuit. Lafayette has the state champion team this year. They are very well coached but they did loose to Beau's team last year. Soccer is a very rough sport!
Suzanne
USA - Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 07:07:54 (MST)
No Gerald I do not remember us playing with a soccer ball behind the Cathedral! If your message 'jogs' my memory at some later date, I'll let you know. I can't 'get into the game of scoccer' Gerald! I'm watching the World Cup, like I watch the World Series in baseball; or the Sweet Sixteen in basketball, and don't watch either sport the rest of the year! The only reason I'm watching the World Cup is because the USA is in it!!! I can't even watch the World Cup because of that NOISE created by those stupid HORNS!!!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 03:25:24 (MST)
Best soccer game I ever watched. Pat even watched it with me. Marshall do you remember when we played with a soccer ball behind Cathedral when we were real young. I seem to remember how you really got into the game. My assumption was that the Christian Brothers from France (Brother Gauthier and others) tried to teach us the game and it did not take. Am I right and did I ask you this already?
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Wednesday, June 23, 2010 at 13:14:57 (MST)
Yea USA!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Wednesday, June 23, 2010 at 09:59:20 (MST)
You were always a "trail blazer" O.P. This may be the happiest move of your life? Getting ready for the World Cup. Raining here this morning. Hope we get a decent ref. this time. Go USA.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Wednesday, June 23, 2010 at 05:20:07 (MST)
You and Shirley will be in my prayers and masses for this hopefully your last move.
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Wednesday, June 23, 2010 at 01:54:34 (MST)
Soon you all will see a different City on my comments. We will be moving to Elkridge, MD in a couple of weeks. We were convinced by my youngest son & Daughter-in-law to move closer to them (for mutual aid). They have 4 of our grandchildren and live in North Laurel, MD. We found a nice Condo just about 15 minutes from their house and 5 minutes from his work. We are moving on July 9th. Email address will remain the same, and also my cell phone number. I'll get the other info out as soon as we get settled. We decided to take this one even though it is on the second floor, because the building has an elevator. Shirley says she will feel more secure when she is by herself in the condo.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Woodbridge, VA USA - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 at 04:00:55 (MST)
HaPpY FaThEr's DaY, all you Father's out there! Hope you enjoy a perfect day! John's niece, Susan, died yesterday on his 78th birthday. I think she was 49 years old. I'm so sad thinking about her family and what they have been through.
Brenda
USA - Sunday, June 20, 2010 at 08:43:37 (MST)
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY to all you Dad's out there...
Doris
USA - Saturday, June 19, 2010 at 18:29:34 (MST)
I agree with you about the instant replay Gerald. Especially in an event like the World Cup where so many languages are involved. The instant replay in this case showed THREE violations against Slovenia and none against the USA!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Friday, June 18, 2010 at 20:16:14 (MST)
I have never seen any sport where an official calling the game does not have to explain what the violation was. Why not instant replay? Works for me!
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Friday, June 18, 2010 at 15:31:48 (MST)
The USA soccer team was robbed this morning against Slovenia!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Friday, June 18, 2010 at 12:02:13 (MST)
NBA final game tonight and USA soccer in the morning. Life is good indoors!
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 15:09:43 (MST)
Is it hot enough for you? Yesterday I worked in my yard and all of a sudden, my new little rescue dog walked right past me like he knew right where he was going. I was so sure that I could call him back, but he kept going. I had to chase him three blocks before getting in front of him and chasing him home. He had gotten out of our back gate because he is so small. I was soaking wet when I finally grabbed him--the end of my yard work! It was a distraction from some sad things happening here. John's niece (50 years old)is dying of cancer. The whole family is just reeling! A priest gave her the last rites in a beautiful ceremony Sunday. Thank heaven for Hospice.
Brenda
USA - Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 06:19:33 (MST)
I spoke to Jan Judice yesterday after Mass and asked about Julian and she said he was doing about the same. That is not good news. The last time I saw him he could hardly walk. Jan told me the had a TIA right before Easter and he still has not recovered yet. He sure has had plenty of problems. If I hear anything else I will let ya'll know.
Rickey
USA - Saturday, June 12, 2010 at 22:00:47 (MST)
In this case a 1-1 tie, aginst the 8th place team, we are the 14th place team, is a very good thing. Our keeper saved us and their's did not. Saw Carlene and Phil at the mall this morning. They seem to be doing very well.
Gerald <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Saturday, June 12, 2010 at 14:46:08 (MST)
Just want to remind everyone that the USA will be playing England Saturday. The introduction will began at Noon and the actual game will begin at 1:30.
If you have a DVR I would suggest that you record the events. There are several commercial interuptions. Go USA.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Friday, June 11, 2010 at 09:06:16 (MST)
Rickey, hope you are doing well and have no more problems.
Brenda
USA - Friday, June 04, 2010 at 11:09:50 (MST)
We may never eat raw oysters again? What a shame!
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Thursday, June 03, 2010 at 13:21:26 (MST)
How sad, J.J.! It's really too bad that this tragedy has happened on top of all of the other terrible problems we are facing. I really feel for our children and their children. Our struggles have been different and not so uncertain.
Brenda
USA - Thursday, June 03, 2010 at 09:31:04 (MST)
Grand Isle I empty. Paradise lost.
J. J.
Grand Isle, USA - Wednesday, June 02, 2010 at 17:37:35 (MST)
We had a wonderful visit with Aimee, Charles' first cousin. Thanks to this website. We had a great time talking about family and old times.
Doris
USA - Tuesday, June 01, 2010 at 19:31:44 (MST)
On this Memorial Day weekend, I want to pass along something I received: "A veteran is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to The United States of America for an amount up to and including his or her life." It makes me think of the veterans who are reading this website. Thank each of you for your sacrifices!
Brenda
USA - Sunday, May 30, 2010 at 10:37:15 (MST)
I saw the (I think) Bishop of N.O. on FoxNews this morning and they were promoting this web site for Donations for coastal Fishing Families:
http://www.ccano.org/
There is a donation link on it.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Woodbridge, VA USA - Sunday, May 30, 2010 at 06:43:11 (MST)
This morning I was sent the following two sites from a friend in New Orleans. The first one is what General Honore thinks:http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/05/25/honore.oil.spill/index.html and the second one is a video letter by Garland Robinette, a radio personality in New Orleans to President Obama. He has been seen on quite a few national shows since this disaster has happened in the Gulf. You can watch it at:
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1520929307?bctid=88728134001. Needless to say, they are both very angry!
Brenda
USA - Saturday, May 29, 2010 at 05:58:48 (MST)
I don't know when this country will grow up! President Bush gets blamed for Katrina and President Omama gets blamed for the Oil Spill!!! As if President Bush was happy that Katrina kit or that President Obama was happy about the Oil spill!!!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Saturday, May 29, 2010 at 03:49:27 (MST)
We have to be wise and prudent. The main industries in South Louisiana are seafood and oil. The spill has killed the seafood industry. If they stop offshore drilling they will shut down South Louisiana. Lafayette will be like it was in the 80's, except the there will be nothing to come back to. We should not burn up the car because is ran over the pig. We must just to learn to drive carefully.
J. J.
Grand Isle , USA - Friday, May 28, 2010 at 14:55:00 (MST)
Ok JJ, the big man (President Barrack Hussein Obama) will be visiting you today in Grand Isle. So you better give him all you got on this oil spill cleanup. Make sure that his "boot" is full of Louisiana Mud mixed with BP Oil when he puts it on BP's neck.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Woodbridge, VA USA - Friday, May 28, 2010 at 04:12:19 (MST)
Of course, I remember Aimee. She was the pretty little blonde in that Moss family. Didn't know you were living in Houston. And with grandchildren here in Spring. Aimee, I'm sending you an e-mail with the update of the family.
Doris
USA - Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 05:31:58 (MST)
Aimee, I think I remember you, but you are younger than we are!! Your sister Joyce was in my sister Martha's class. They graduated in 1953 and the class is still getting together very frequently. I'm sorry to hear about Joyce's death. I guess you didn't hear that Avis died also. She died of cancer 3 or 4 years ago. She was a very impressive person and a gifted writer. I'm glad that you were able to write here as it takes using the password, etc. It surely is a small world, if you are kin to Doris's husband Charles. I wish you'd send O.P. a picture of you when you were at Mt. Carmel and maybe a later one so that we can better remember you. I'm sure Henrietta Bertrand will remember you. She has a fantastic memory!
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, May 26, 2010 at 19:12:40 (MST)
I "discovered" this website accidentally (and happily so) in April. I attended Mt Carmel from K thru 1959 and would have graduated in 1960 had i not convinced my mother that i wanted to go to a public (read: co-ed) school & finally wore her down!
My older sister, Joyce (Joy) Moss Schexnyder (who died in 1998) graduated MC in, i think, 1953 or 54 as salutorian of her class.
I visit Lafayette frequently as my oldest sister (Claire Moss Ashy) and brother (Jeff Moss - Cathedral '61) still live there as do their families.
I used to attend St. Cecelia's church here in Houston & would see Avis & Paul Rupert. when Paul died i sent Avis a note & she returned with the most beautifully written response. However, ino longer go to St. C's & have lost track of her.
also, i think Doris, whose notes i've read today on this site, is married to my cousin Charles Provost, whose Mother (Rose Aimee Moss) was my Dad's sister!!!!
i will attempt to see if i can connect with other MC classmates of the late 1950's & 1960 as well.
would enjoy hearing from anyone,- however, i am a "spasmatic" computer user as i am still employed - having my own advertising co. here in Houston keeps me busy,
plus spending time with my 2 sons (Richard & Greg de Boisblanc) and my 5 grandchildren, who live in Spring & Sugarland!
Warm wishes, Aimee
aimee moss kolstad <tinkergold@aol.com>
houston, tx USA - Wednesday, May 26, 2010 at 16:19:28 (MST)
Thank you, J.J. for your on-site reporting! I have been worried about Louisiana's wet lands ever since Katrina. They are so important as protection in times of hurricanes. Now, there is a chance that they will be destroyed, along with the natural habitat for our wildlife. It doesn't look like our grandchildren will enjoy the world we lived in!
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 06:30:39 (MST)
Grand Isle stinks. I stand with my nose 20 feet up in the air on my deck and it smells like the inside of a fuel barge. Then you began to sneeze.
It is easy to throw rocks at BP and label them the villan; but our demand for oil has given birth to this crisis. We must look to ourselves and our demand for oil and accept part of the blame for spoiling our own nest.
J. J. <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
Larose, USA - Monday, May 24, 2010 at 19:20:10 (MST)
Grand Isle is a mess. The beach is a soft tar ball. The sea life is head or gone. The governor sent 1000 National Guard troops to the island. Eager 19 year olds who will do whatever is asked. The do nothing because they have been told to do nothing. They have armor plated hummers, giant troop carriers and a lot of gas. They are doing what 19 year olds do with trucks an a lot of gas. He drive up an down the highway, wandering without leadership or control. The wildlife and fisheries have purchased a bunch of four wheelers and a couple of chuck wagons. They drive up and down the beaches like the bikers use to do in the 70s. They people off of he beach. The beach is closed and he waters around the island an miles inland are closed to fishing. BP had an accident that will cost them a big chunk of their corporate assets. It will foul the cost for the next ten years. It will also damage the economy of South Louisiana. It will stifle offshore drilling and ultimately raise the cost of gas and bang the whole of the already broken economy.
The governmental reaction to the spill is a study in waste.
J. J. <Judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
Larose, USA - Monday, May 24, 2010 at 14:02:47 (MST)
Grand Isle is a mess. The beach is a soft tar ball. The sea life is head or gone. The governor sent 1000 National Guard troops to the island. Eager 19 year olds who will do whatever is asked. The do nothing because they have been told to do nothing. They have armor plated hummers, giant troop carriers and a lot of gas. They are doing what 19 year olds do with trucks an a lot of gas. He drive up an down the highway, wandering without leadership or control. The wildlife and fisheries have purchased a bunch of four wheelers and a couple of chuck wagons. They drive up and down the beaches like the bikers use to do in the 70s. They people off of he beach. The beach is closed and he waters around the island an miles inland are closed to fishing. BP had an accident that will cost them a big chunk of their corporate assets. It will foul the cost for the next ten years. It will also damage the economy of South Louisiana. It will stifle offshore drilling and ultimately raise the cost of gas and bang the whole of the already broken economy.
The governmental reaction to the spill is a study in waste.
J. J. <Judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
Larose, USA - Monday, May 24, 2010 at 14:02:20 (MST)
GMA this morning had a Video of Grand Isle with the oil coming ashore! Is it as bad as the news clip shows JJ? I think BP should have to pay every person who has a commercial fishing license in TX,LA,MS,AL and FL a Million dollars...for starters. Then perhaps half that to everyone who has a boat registered in the same states. People who depend on the water for their livelyhood, can't afford to wait for he courts to decide!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Monday, May 24, 2010 at 04:16:21 (MST)
Go lady Cajuns!!! Hey JJ what's the latest on Grand Isle? I heard that oil was coming up on the beach??
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Monday, May 24, 2010 at 02:16:53 (MST)
How about those Cajun softball/baseball teams. Looks like they are far better than LSU.
Gerald Reaux <Ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Sunday, May 23, 2010 at 16:29:41 (MST)
Brenda, that was too funny, loved it.
doris
USA - Friday, May 21, 2010 at 18:36:25 (MST)
Check out this site: http://www.coolestone.com/media/1222/Old_Rock_Star_Songs/
Brenda
USA - Friday, May 21, 2010 at 15:17:34 (MST)
Great news Doris, about Karli! By the way, did your email address change...the last message I sent to dprovost37@comcast.net came back as undeliverable!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Thursday, May 20, 2010 at 03:23:55 (MST)
I know how relieved all of you must be, Doris. Once our grandson, Mikie, was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis and, later, it turned out to be a bad case of asthma!!
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at 20:05:06 (MST)
THANKS for the prayers. Karli saw the neorologist today and he confirmed that she DOES NOT have MS. Thank God. She does have some nerve damage in her foot, but he will do further testing to find out what and what can be done for it. Whew, that was a relief.
Doris
USA - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at 19:26:57 (MST)
Thanks Doris and Brenda. Connor is our third to oldest grandchild going to college. The other two are twins. Kaitlyn is at ULL majoring in child and family services and Parker is at LSU majoring in accounting. They have not received their grades yet to my knowledge.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at 14:10:56 (MST)
Oops! Just reread. Connor graduated from high school with that unbelievable average. Congratulations!
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at 06:13:28 (MST)
Hadn't checked this site in two days and today it seems like there is good news and bad. Doris, I pray that Karli gets good news from all of the testing!! Congratulations, Doris and Gerald, on your grandchildren's excellent record upon graduation from college. Those are unbelievable gradepoint averages and you must be so proud!
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, May 18, 2010 at 18:25:40 (MST)
Wow, Gerald. THAT is something to be proud of. Congratulations.
Doris
USA - Tuesday, May 18, 2010 at 13:30:52 (MST)
Congratulations Doris. Now it's our turn. My youngest son Raymond the one with all the heart trouble, has his oldest child Connor graduating from St. Thomas More tonight with a weighted academic GPA of 4.261. He has enrolled at LSU this fall and placed out of 27 hours in Chemical Engineering. We are so proud of him.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Tuesday, May 18, 2010 at 13:25:04 (MST)
Now I have some good news~ ~ I have to do a little bragging. Kristi, Pennye's daughter, graduated from the Universaty of Southern Florida with a major in Psychology, with a 4.0 Average. Straight A's.. She is going on to graduate school in the fall. We are very proud of her. She is the youngest of the seven older grandchildren. Then we have four younger ones between the ages of 10 yrs. and 5 months.
Doris
USA - Sunday, May 16, 2010 at 12:35:21 (MST)
PRAYER REQUEST: Just found out that our grandaughter who just had surgery in N.Y. May be diagnosed with M.S. ( Don't think it had anything to do with the appendix, though.) She is going for further testing this coming week. Please add her to your prayer list-- Again. I will let you know the results of the test. Her name is Karli. She is Chuck's daughter.
Doris
USA - Saturday, May 15, 2010 at 18:41:43 (MST)
An update on Donald. He is being transfered from Rosewood to Kingsley Friday. He called me "Reaux" the last time I saw him on May 4. There is still a little hope in the future.
Gerald Reaux <Ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at 14:11:51 (MST)
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all you mother's out there. Have a good one. Oh O.P. and Shirely. What a beauty Sophia is. Those sweet, sweet girls, huh Shirely, don't you just love them. Not that we don't love our boys too, though.
Doris
USA - Sunday, May 09, 2010 at 08:24:11 (MST)
O.P., Sophia is still a great beauty! Happy Mother's Day, Shirley!
Brenda
USA - Saturday, May 08, 2010 at 13:01:52 (MST)
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY! I hope all of the women involved with the class of '55 have a wonderful Mother's Day tomorrow.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, May 08, 2010 at 07:16:17 (MST)
Beautiful babies! and of course you and Charles are ageless!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Saturday, May 08, 2010 at 03:40:42 (MST)
What a cute picture, Doris!
Brenda
USA - Friday, May 07, 2010 at 05:40:47 (MST)
One more thing...the first show, produced for television by our son Johnny in Baton Rouge, will debut tonight at 6:30 p.m. on Cox Channel 4. The show is called BR Cuisine and he has done every aspect of the show himself. Many of you have kept him in your prayers since he lost his job in California. This show is the kind of thing he was doing for his t.v. station in Anaheim. It's scary business, starting out on your own, but he has worked very hard and maybe things will finally work out for him again.
Brenda
USA - Thursday, May 06, 2010 at 06:33:34 (MST)
Our son-in-law Bill Martin Williams will be in next week's episode of Treme on HBO. He plays an insurance agent in New Orleans after Katrina.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, May 01, 2010 at 08:02:03 (MST)
In this morning's Advocate, Harry Clark of Lafayette shared some memories. He said: "We would take bottle caps and remove the cork, and put the cap on the outside of our T-shirts and the cork on the inside. It would stay on your shirt and become a sheriff's badge. We would also stomp on steel beer cans with our heels, causing the can to collapse and the top and the bottom to compress on your shoes, making high-heeled cowboy boots.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, May 01, 2010 at 07:59:27 (MST)
Henrietta, my next door neighbor is also training for the census. He is an unemployed school teacher. He really loves it. His name is John Doyel in case you run into him.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Saturday, May 01, 2010 at 06:03:40 (MST)
Suzanne is so right, society is certainly different these days. Today, at a training class for U.S. Census 2010 Workers, our crew leader asked me to address the class since I’d told him I’d worked for the 1970 Census while living in Terrytown (metro New Orleans). I talked about how everything was much simpler in those days: on the 1970 Census forms, there weren’t so many questions about race and naming the Hispanics’ countries, the interviews were conducted in English, I was surprised to see the large salaries of plumbers and electricians compared to those with Ph.D.’s, and when a man and woman shared a household, they generally were married! My, how our beloved country has changed! Wish me luck. Paul is taking bets on how long I’ll still want to continue as an enumerator.
Henrietta
USA - Friday, April 30, 2010 at 21:25:04 (MST)
No oil smell here. I am on my way to my house on the island. I will let you know what I see when I get back.
J. J. Erny <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
Larose, La USA - Friday, April 30, 2010 at 14:43:44 (MST)
What a tragedy is happening right now on our shorelines and wetlands!! Some are claiming to be able to smell the oil all of the way up here in Baton Rouge. I guess J.J.'s area will be affected adversely.
Brenda
USA - Friday, April 30, 2010 at 14:13:22 (MST)
I had forgot that. Apparently that left a vivid memory in your mind. Ha!
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Thursday, April 29, 2010 at 09:07:55 (MST)
Gerald, I think y'all took me to Wit's the night of my bachelor party the night before our wedding. Is that true?
O. P. Ditch
USA - Thursday, April 29, 2010 at 07:19:55 (MST)
Henry's was in downtown Lafayette on E. Main not too far from the old Blair House at the corner of Jefferson and E. Main.
Leon's was in Duson and owned by Cecil Trahan's parents.
On Johnston St. across from the Twin Drive Inn was the Four Seasons and next door was the Embassy Lounge.
There was also a late night poker game at Stanly's near four corners and an all night dance hall named Wit's Lounge further down on the left toward Carencro.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Wednesday, April 28, 2010 at 14:29:46 (MST)
Gerald, I don't remember "Henry's" or "Leon's" give my brains some help, where were they? I do remember a place just down from Judice Inn that we went to in College, and later I think. I can't remember the name. I think there were two different places there for a while, next door to each other. Help, Gerald, what were they?
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Woodbridge, VA USA - Wednesday, April 28, 2010 at 11:30:51 (MST)
I remembered the dance hall on the Scott road. It was Landry's paladium. I remember seeing Maugie dancing with Tommy Benoit there one night. It was a little over the top shall we say but everyone stoped dancing to watch. It was something to see. She could and still can dance.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 18:18:17 (MST)
Gosh Gerald you do bring back good memories. Henry's was the place Charles and I frequented a lot. Dancing was pretty cheap then because we danced to the juke box. With the exception of sometimes like at Mulates.
Doris
USA - Monday, April 26, 2010 at 17:47:42 (MST)
Like I keep telling Charles, everything is relative. Sure things were cheaper then, but people didn't make much money. Things are expensive now because people's wages are more. Just look at the minimum wages. What they were in the 50's and what they are now. I think I see your point Brenda, maybe it is the same - only now it involves more money. A lot of the kids do work today. All my grandchildren had jobs for spending money.
Doris
USA - Monday, April 26, 2010 at 17:44:37 (MST)
Was it just SOUTHERN MANNERS that had our dates pay for everything? I think society was so different today and everything is so expensive. It's like haveing the door opened for you, nobody does that any more. Remember, it cost only 35 cents to get into a movie and a coke was ten cents. Did we have to pay a cover charge at the dance places? Long time ago!!!!!!
Suzanne
USA - Monday, April 26, 2010 at 16:03:19 (MST)
I had forgotten about Leon's and the Peacock. Gerald, you must have spent every penny you made going dancing! I'm sure Pat was too young in those days to be in some of those places so that must have been before her time.
Brenda
USA - Monday, April 26, 2010 at 14:16:52 (MST)
I remember trying to have a date every weekend. Saturday at the Peacock, Henry's, Blue Note, Leon's, Orental, a dance hall on the Scott road that I can't recall and Sunday at Mulates since Lafayette Parish was shut down. We would also go to the Southern Club in Opelousas. Danced from early evening to late night. Those were the days.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Monday, April 26, 2010 at 13:51:48 (MST)
No, I wasn't thinking about Prom night. I was thinking about just taking a girl to a movie and to get a hamburger after. I wondered if the costs were comparable to what was paid in the 50's, considering what everything else cost then and now. Speaking of the Prom--that is another matter entirely. I understand that it has gone completely off the charts. Yesterday I heard that the Juniors had to pay $90 each for "their" senior to enable that senior to go to the prom! It is a tradition in the school that the juniors each sponsor one senior to the prom. Then, the boy senior has to pay for everything else for the night and the girl has to buy her dress and accessories. I wonder how many of them have jobs!
Brenda
USA - Monday, April 26, 2010 at 09:38:40 (MST)
Brenda, are you talking about Prom night? Now my kids, went out to dinner then. But the other times. Usually it really wasn't even a date, they met the boy/girl somewhere and I think they each payed their own. Serious dating was when they were in college and they all had jobs besides school, so I don't know who paid then. The guys could've paid.
Doris
USA - Monday, April 26, 2010 at 05:37:20 (MST)
I will have to stand up for the young girls I know today. I have only one granddaughter old enough to date and I've heard her mention that she and her boy friend didn't go out that night because they were watching costs, etc. I wish all of the guys and gals who read this website would enter into this conversation. If you don't know how to leave a message, write to O.P. and he will tell you how. It would be nice if we'd hear from other folks, particularly those who can remember the 50's.
Brenda
USA - Sunday, April 25, 2010 at 20:05:07 (MST)
You are right Gerald. I can remember going to the Skunk or Tophat or Judice Inn, by the way Brenda, that my our dinner dates, and just ordering fries and a coke,even though I was dying for a hamburger too. Gerald, I can't remember if that was when I was on a date with you or not. But you know, even when I was dating Charles we never went out to a fancy resturaunt. The best dates I had was when we would go dancing. Who cared about eating then? Charles and I use to go dancing three times a week. Fri.Sat. and Wed. night. My mom made me come in at 10:00 on Wed. nights.
Doris
USA - Sunday, April 25, 2010 at 19:34:33 (MST)
To me it all depends on the date. In our day I believe the girls tried to keep the costs at a minimum. I don't know in today's dating world if the girls are as considerate?
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Sunday, April 25, 2010 at 13:02:35 (MST)
Stewart said that he used to go on dates with $4 in his pocket and bought gas also. What I want to know, is how much the same date would cost today.....
Brenda
USA - Sunday, April 25, 2010 at 11:58:35 (MST)
If the guy still paid for everything on a date, PERHAPS it would prevent early marriages??? Because the guy would realize how much it cost to support a family? Just guessing!!!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Saturday, April 24, 2010 at 16:12:32 (MST)
Maybe you boys could tell me. In the 50's, when you had a date and paid for everything: movie, the Skunk, etc., do you think the same date in 2010 would cost relatively the same amount? I can't imagine my grandsons springing for the whole cost of a date at today's movie and meal prices so maybe I didn't appreciate how difficult it was for you guys in the 50's. What do you think?
Brenda
USA - Saturday, April 24, 2010 at 16:03:28 (MST)
At last, our Cathedral and Carmel Class of 1955 bricks should be in place on the schoolground. We're all invited to the Blessing of the Brick Pavers, this coming Friday, April 23, 2010, at 9:00 a.m., immediately following the school Mass, on the front lawn of CCS.
Henrietta
USA - Monday, April 19, 2010 at 19:09:25 (MST)
Happy anniversary Faye & Harvey. Two years & counting.
Gerald reaux
USA - Monday, April 19, 2010 at 14:40:01 (MST)
I guess knowing the cause of an illness is 1/2 the cure! Being a medical student, I am sure she had no shortish of diagnosises? Prayers and masses continue, Doris!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Saturday, April 17, 2010 at 16:19:12 (MST)
Thanks for the prayers. I just came back from teaching a CCE class. Charles said Chuck called (Karli is his daughter) and he said the Dr. said gangerine had already set in. Karli has been sick for some time now and has been loosing weight. They couldn't find what was wrong with her. They think that her appendix had been bad for some time now. Can you imagine. Scarey, huh? Hopefully she will be just fine now. She is planning on going to Ghana on a mission trip with other med students to do work with the Dr.'s over there helping the poor. This is suppose to be in June. Thank God she got sick over here and not overseas.
Doris
USA - Saturday, April 17, 2010 at 11:12:28 (MST)
I hope everything comes out all right, Doris! Congratulations, Harvey and Faye!
Brenda
USA - Saturday, April 17, 2010 at 06:39:46 (MST)
Karli had a ruptered appendix. She is still in recovery this morning. Her mom is on the way to NY. Thanks for the prayers. As it turned out one of her classmates stayed with her at the hospital. Thank you Jesus.
Doris <dorisprovost@att.net>
USA - Saturday, April 17, 2010 at 05:20:55 (MST)
If my memory serves me right, Harvey and Faye will be celebrating their 2nd anniversary Monday the 19th!!! Right Harvey and Faye? Congratulations.
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Saturday, April 17, 2010 at 05:19:10 (MST)
Prayer Request: My grand daughter, Karli, who is going to school in New York, is in the Hospital tonight in emergency. She is by herself there and is diagnosed with appendicitis and they think something else is not right. Please remember her in your prayers. Her mom is flying up there tomorrow morning (the earliest she could get a flight). We are very concerned about her being unconcious is a big hospital like that with no family or friends around. Please, pray that God will be by her side and keep her safe. Thanks.
Doris <dorisprovost@att.net>
USA - Friday, April 16, 2010 at 19:38:07 (MST)
Wonderful pictures, O.P.! Everyone looks so happy to be together.
Brenda
USA - Thursday, April 15, 2010 at 08:03:09 (MST)
Gerald the luncheon was great. It was a nice gathering and most of the people we used to hang around with were there. What happened to Carrol Comeaux? I think the idea of a trip for the reunion is a great idea. It sure will be something different. Maybe those who don't gamble can take in a show. I'm feeling much better now. It was something I can't control. I only have 9 days left of rediation. I will be glad to get it over with. By the way Marshall, how are you doing? We haven't heard from you and a few people were asking me about you. J.J. it was great to see you. You are like a lot of us and just getting older but better. For those of you who weren't there OP said he is moving to Maryland to be closer to his youngest child. Like he said we havr to get closer to our youngest to have somebody to take care of us when we need. Thanks again Gerald.
Rickey
USA - Thursday, April 15, 2010 at 05:40:38 (MST)
Thanks for the pictures of the mini-reunion O.P. Everyone looks great!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 18:35:22 (MST)
Ok, so I forgot something else (in addition to other things). I wanted to thanks Gerald Reaux for his excellent work in rounding up as many classmates as he could to come to our Mini Cathedral Class Reunion at Don's today. We had a ball. See the photos on the main page. He and Pat also were able to "borrow" the 1955 Lafayette City Directory Book from the UL Library, and he arranged for some old photos to be printed from our 25th Reunion. Thanks Gerald & Pat.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Lafayette, LA USA - Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 16:44:37 (MST)
Don't forget to note the new photos from the Mini-Reunion today at Don's Seafood.
O. P. Ditch
USA - Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 15:53:59 (MST)
OK, Henrietta, let me see if it will print the CathedralCarmel website address for me: http://cathedralcarmel.com/
Hummmmm, looks like it printed it. But to make it clickable, I have to do some html tricks to it like this: http://cathedralcarmel.com
lets see what this comes out as....
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Laf, LA USA - Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 15:50:23 (MST)
Once again, it wouldn’t print the Cathedral-Carmel website in my message, so I’ll try sending it in plain English, with added spaces: foundation @ cathedralcarmel. com. So far, I’m not having the luck of the Irish today.
Henrietta
USA - Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 13:50:16 (MST)
Looks like the leprechauns got to my computer again. The previous Guestbook comment should read, "for information or reservations, go to ."
Henrietta
USA - Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 13:46:48 (MST)
Local alumni probably already received invitations to the Friday, May 7, 11:00 a.m. 2010 Alumni Luncheon & May Crowning with special guest speaker Fr. Hampton Davis, CCHS 1975. Sarah Hyde sent an email, stating that everyone is WELCOME! Also, there will be a very special Eraste Autin Memorial Presentation at 1:00 p.m. during the luncheon. If you haven’t received your invitation and would like one in order to attend, for information or reservations go to. I may go. Let me know if you’re interested, and maybe our Cathedral-Carmel group could attend together.
Henrietta <hbb929@cox.net>
USA - Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 13:43:37 (MST)
Brenda, I'm able to pull up the website www.ccsauction.net on my computer. Are you entering the exact website letters & punctuation? Otherwise, all I can think of is that maybe your computer blocks this website. Has anyone else tried getting on this website?
Henrietta
USA - Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at 20:59:36 (MST)
Henrietta, check out that auction website. It won't go through on my computer.
Brenda
USA - Monday, April 12, 2010 at 20:15:43 (MST)
Chairperson and 3d generation CCS student, Renae Trahan, asked that I tell you all about the following: This Saturday night, April 17th, is the CCS annual $10,000 raffle and auction, "A Roaring Night in the Tiger Den." This fundraiser is responsible for bringing in over $200,000 of capital to our beloved school. Visit the website, www.ccsauction.net, for more information about the auction and raffle. It states that there's a 1 out of 500 chance to win the cash prize (better than the Louisiana lottery), and they're also raffling a jeep and a beach get-away. It is certainly a good cause, and maybe you could get lucky.
Henrietta
USA - Monday, April 12, 2010 at 14:34:51 (MST)
The nice thing about being over 70 is that you are more often amused that shocked
J. J. Erny <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
Larose, La USA - Monday, April 12, 2010 at 11:18:32 (MST)
OP I thought you were already 93. It was nice seeing you and Shirley last night. If anybody hasn't tried Longhorn Steak House yet put it on your list.
Rickey
USA - Monday, April 12, 2010 at 06:31:53 (MST)
Hey Brenda, don't complain, think of the alternative. I'm looking forward to 93!!
the Lord willing.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Lafayette, LA USA - Monday, April 12, 2010 at 04:09:23 (MST)
The thing that is really awful about turning 70 a few years ago is that it doesn't stop there. You turn 71, 72, and now 73!
Brenda
USA - Sunday, April 11, 2010 at 06:05:42 (MST)
We were saying the same thing about the flowers over here. We were thinking it was because of the hard winter we had. Maybe flowers like the really cold before the warm weather. The azaleas are beautiful over here, which is unusual.
Doris
USA - Tuesday, April 06, 2010 at 05:28:14 (MST)
I'm with you Brenda. This has been the first time in many years that the azaleas and bridal wreath's have been blooming at Easter. I love it and it seems that the colors are so vivid. HAPPY EASTER EVERYBODY!!!
Suzanne
USA - Sunday, April 04, 2010 at 14:48:30 (MST)
I don't remember an Easter when all of the Spring flowers were at their peak as they are this year. They just shouts "Easter!" this year.
Brenda
USA - Sunday, April 04, 2010 at 13:03:13 (MST)
Brenda beat me to it. HAPPY AND VERY HOLY EASTER SEASON. OP and Shirley are coming in on April 13th. I am looking forward to spending some time with them. The only problem is that they have so many people to visit that they stay busy. By the way has anyone but Barbara and I gone out the the new Resturant on Ridge Road. It's called LA Seafood. It owned by the same person who own Deano's. I had the filet there and it probably was the best piece of meat that I have eaten in a long time and cooked just right. Barbara had shrimp and grits. She said it was also very good. Her desert was sweet potato puddng. He couldn't eat all of it so she brought it home with her. The resturant is where the old Denoeaux use to be. The serving are large and probable serve two people with average appeite. It will be one of the place that my son Carlos and wives go this weekend.
Well again have a Happy Easter.
Rickey
USA - Friday, April 02, 2010 at 06:58:49 (MST)
Turns out that the parishioners who told me not to worry about getting a parking ticket, GOT ONE! Guess I was lucky. I hope everyone of you enjoys these beautiful Spring Days and keeps in mind the One who gives them to us. Happy Easter to all of you!
Brenda
USA - Friday, April 02, 2010 at 06:28:32 (MST)
Brend that is the beauty of living West of I-10 or Hwy 90 in LA...'religious courtesyes'!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Englewood, FL USA - Wednesday, March 31, 2010 at 16:38:36 (MST)
Attended a beautiful Chrism mass today at the Cathedral. I had put 2 hours worth of coins in the meter, thinking that that was surely enough. Even before the gifts were brought up, I had to leave to go put money in the meter. However, a Cathedral parishioner told me that tickets are not given out on days like today. What hospitality down town!!
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, March 31, 2010 at 15:39:45 (MST)
Yes, Rickey Vivian is Gayle Robicheaux's sister-in-law... Brenda you are right. What a beautiful day. I had my two little grandson's over to play today. They love to come play in my back yard because it is so big and I am the only one who still has a swing set in my back yard. They don't have theirs anymore, and their other grandma has a swimming pool in her back yard. They played on that swingset ALL day long. I sat outside with them, it was just to pretty to come in and work.
Doris
USA - Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 16:23:38 (MST)
On this beautiful Spring day, with nothing on my calendar until Little Theater tonight, I have begun Spring Cleaning! However, probably having Attention Deficit Disorder, I have stopped and changed my A.C. filters, cut back my poinsettia plants, and am now taking a break.
Brendab
USA - Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 11:21:12 (MST)
Rickey, her brother is Robert Arceneaux. Isn't this weather great!!!!!!!!
Suzanne
USA - Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 08:49:05 (MST)
Question: I ran into Vivian Tullos at the movies the other day and we spoke for awhile. She said her brother went to school with us but I don't remember her maiden name and where she gratuated from. Does anyone know?
Rickey
USA - Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 08:21:25 (MST)
Sounds like good news, Marshall. Old age sneaks up on you when you are enjoying life. Every day I inadvertently say or do something that I know screams "old lady," and I'm powerless to do otherwise. At least people are still very helpful to the "elderly."
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 06:07:58 (MST)
Went to the doctor today so he could put a camera into the bladder (they don't cut into the bladder...so use your imagination as to how they get the camera up there). No further cancer growths showed up, so he will go into the bladder again in three months! Oh these great GOLDEN YEARS! I guess when you go into the bladder we have to take 'GOLDEN' literally! Ha! Thanks for all the prayers and keep them coming! LU All
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 16:44:17 (MST)
Donald Deshotels has a new phone. If you would like to chat with him it is 337-456-2351.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 09:51:24 (MST)
Jeanette just called me to let us know that Janet's operation went well and she should have a good recovery. Keep the prayers going !!!!!!!
Patsy Franques
Lafayette,, La. USA - Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 12:23:49 (MST)
Today is Janet's surgery. The prayer is one that Doris wrote when Marshall was undergoing surgery.
Dear Lord,
We thank You for all the kindness You have bestowed upon us by answering our prayers in the past. Once again we come to You, and we know that You will be present for the surgery of our friend and classmate,Janet. Guide the surgeon's hands so that Janet will be well again. Keep Your hands upon Janet, during the surgery and during her recuperations, so that she may fee Your healing touch.
Amen
By Doris Landry Provost
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 06:16:12 (MST)
Thanks for the update on Janet, Patsy. Prayers and Masses continue. About Cajun/Zydeco music. I always thought that Zydeco was originated by Clifton Cheniere, and it was Cajun music played with a 'black' beat, and using a regul ar piano accordian vs the Cajun 'squak box' accordian! I agree with you that the beat is quicker. That's my 2 cents worth!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 04:27:07 (MST)
Some of you music people. What is the difference between Cajun and Zydeco music???? I think
Zydeco has a faster beat. Let me know.
Patsy Franques
Lafayette,, La. USA - Friday, March 12, 2010 at 17:46:56 (MST)
Talked to Janet this a.m. She is in good spirits and she tells me that her doctor feels that he can
remove the cancer in her breast and with some radiation she should be fine. He doesn't think it has
spread. Her operation is Tuesday. I thought it was yesterday. Keep praying. Don't you love this
beautiful weather? I went to eat lunch at the French Press and was very impressed with the food and
its presentation. Had French Press Eggs Benedict on two patties of black beans with crab meat and a
delicious sauce. After eating we went to the old Sans Souci bookstore where they sell items made by
La. craftsmen. Lots of nice stuff........very interesting. While we were shopping we could hear the
Zydeco music outside being played at the Bach lunch. This was a very nice outing!
Patsy Franques
Lafayette,, La. USA - Friday, March 12, 2010 at 13:56:12 (MST)
Charles' continued good health is truly an answer to our prayers!
Brenda
USA - Friday, March 12, 2010 at 06:40:07 (MST)
Thanks, Brenda for the update on Janet. Will say prayers. We went to M.D.Anderson this week and everything is hunky dory with Charles. Thank God....
doris
USA - Friday, March 12, 2010 at 06:13:41 (MST)
I am trying my first iPhone message with op on skype.
Gerald reaux
USA - Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 16:19:44 (MST)
Testing our iPhones
Op ditch
USA - Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 16:17:29 (MST)
Patsy just called me and asked me to put this message on this site. She heard from Carleen, who heard from Jeanette, that Janet is having surgery this morning for breast cancer. Please say a prayer for her complete recovery after reading this note. Thanks to all of you who have direct lines to the Father of us all.
Brenda
USA - Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 08:32:22 (MST)
Brenda, you wish will come true: Check your email -- I've sent you an updated Class of 1955 list of names, address, phone numbers and email addresses. Patsy and I keep a copy of this list for reunions. (See also our original list, Class Listing link on this website.)
Henrietta Boriskie
USA - Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 17:38:39 (MST)
Several weeks ago I went hunting on the King ranch in South Texas. The lease that I hunted was 11,000 acres. The whole ranch is about 1,000,000 acres. I saw and could have killed trophy deer and big and small pigs. I did not shoot. If you shoot and hit something you have to track it. I cannot walk on the uneven ground well enough to tack a wounded animal. Be sides the grass is as high as my chest and a pig could come at you without knowing it. They are dangerous when wounded. The party killed several deer and pigs. The walked without trouble; but they are all about 15 years younger that I am. O. P. You would have liked it. The guide I had was the same one who guided Bush one and Bush two when they hunted here.
J. J. Erny <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
Larose, La USA - Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 17:26:49 (MST)
I should have left my e-mail address before so that anyone reading these letters from Mt. Carmel could write to me and I could begin collecting addresses.
Brenda <jatkin19321@cox.net>
USA - Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 06:49:50 (MST)
At least all of my house plants are getting watered with this rain. Hauling all of my outside plants in and out all winter hasn't been fun though. What a cold winter we've had. By the way, I was thinking that I wish I had e-mail addresses for all of the women who graduated from Mt. Carmel in 1955. We could get together more often, if there was an easy way to reach them to tell them when we were going to meet for lunch or something.
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, March 09, 2010 at 15:45:02 (MST)
I find Donald's short term memory is really bad but his long term is very good. In his family of 10 he is the 4th to have memory issues and I believe his dad had them also. Essie and her grandson are now operating the exterminating business. Out of the ten children there remain two living He and an older sister Cynthia.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Thursday, March 04, 2010 at 08:42:12 (MST)
I can't imagine living in the cold North as it has been pretty miserable down here with our damp, penetrating cold weather we have been having. John is really feeling it now because he has lost so much weight after his surgery. Are any of you interested in the OSCARS Sunday evening? We didn't see all of the nominated movies, but I'd like to weigh in on those I think were the best movies, actors, etc. Best movie: "Precious", Best Actress: either Meryl Streep or Helen Mirren, Best supporting Actress: Monique, and Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Wiltz, Best Director: Cameron. I didn't see enough of the movies to pick a Best Actor, having seen only "Hurt Locker" and "Up in the Air" which had the nominated actors.
Brenda
USA - Thursday, March 04, 2010 at 06:46:45 (MST)
Poor OP he is snowed in. I spoke to him a while back and he told me the snow was starting to melt but it was expected to snow again the next day. I don't know if he got the snow but I'm glad we live here in God's country. Gerald is Donald's memory any better or is it worst. Is Essie still working for him? That seems to run in their family. Suzanne I don't think I have ever seen a better picture than the one of you taken at Mardi Gras with your grandkids. I start my radiation treatment on Monday to eleminate my cancer. I had my prostate removed a while back but the cancer seems to be still there. Oh well it's always fun and games when you get to be our age. It's nice to have the web page active again. Anybody know how Ray Domengeaux is now. The last I heard he wasn't doing very well. I will check with Dale Gaudet and see if he knows anything about him.
Rickey
USA - Thursday, March 04, 2010 at 05:04:25 (MST)
Got my first taker to visit Donald today. Darrell Girouard called and will visit him tomorrow or Friday. This web site rocks!
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Wednesday, March 03, 2010 at 15:25:47 (MST)
Good to see all the activity. My turn to weigh-in on the boy's class. Jimmy Richard lived a few blocks from me on Stewart St. and had a car way before I did. His daddy was a mechanic and he use to pop the clutch and backfire when he passed in front of my house on his way to school. He died a very untimely death probably 15 years ago from complications of a very severe lung infection. He and Donald Deshotel worked together at Shamrock's on Vermilion if you recall. Visited Donald last Friday. He is in a nice assisted living home called Rosewood behing Ruby's restaurent on Rue Louie the XIV. I am sure he would appreciate a visit or call from anyone. His cell phone number is 349-5519 and is always there. He is doing well however a little forgetful and trembles some but the same old Donald. Very animated.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Monday, March 01, 2010 at 12:10:52 (MST)
My Matthew had his 10th birthday last week, Ethan is 12 and Beau is 14. It was't Mardi Gras day but the Sunday before. We watched parades until 11 o'clock that night. What a day! Three days of all that was just too much so I came home on Monday. And yes, Beau was hard to catch for the picture. By the way, Julien is ok now and resting at home. He had a stent in the upper leg and as Jan put it they blew out a vein in the lower leg. He is very weak from being in bed for so long but doing well.
Suzanne
USA - Monday, March 01, 2010 at 09:56:43 (MST)
O.P. our Matt is in 6 and in first grade also. He is Mitch's second son and a clone of his daddy.
Doris
USA - Sunday, February 28, 2010 at 20:35:49 (MST)
Hey! guess what? We have a Matthew also. Matthew (we don't call him Matt yet) is 6 years old and in the first grade. He is my youngest son's second to youngest and they live in Maryland.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Woo, VA USA - Sunday, February 28, 2010 at 07:35:19 (MST)
I was thinking the same thing, Doris! Our Matt is going to be 12 Thursday and he's almost as tall as his father. How old is your Matt, Suzanne? Looks like you were having a grand time in New Orleans will your beautiful grandchildren, Suzanne.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 16:07:39 (MST)
Sue, what a good picture of you. It seems like we all have a Matthew in our family, huh?
Doris
USA - Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 06:59:50 (MST)
Suzanne by the number of beads the two little ones have around their necks, it looks like they had a great day with their Grandma...the oldest has that look of "I'm getting too old this this stuff"! Beautiful kids!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 04:31:19 (MST)
Yes, Henrietta, you can let the ulumni know that as of Dec. 24 2009, I now have Five children, eleven grandchildren and three great grandchildren. We will be married 55 years in Sept. 2010. Our newest Grandbaby is a beautiful little girl who is two months old now. She is so precious to us, coming in our late years.
Doris
USA - Friday, February 26, 2010 at 20:22:57 (MST)
The Cathedral-Carmel Alumni Association sent an email, asking that we spread the word around that they're seeking information on class reunions, promotions, awards, births, weddings, etc… to be included in the “Alum Section" of the CCS summer newsletter. So if you have news for the newsletter, let them know. April 16th is the deadline for submission. They're also planning an Alumni luncheon to be held on Friday, May 7.
Henrietta
USA - Friday, February 26, 2010 at 17:42:18 (MST)
Where is everybody. Myself included. No one except Marshall, Gerald, Brenda and Doris write anymore. I know I have been bad about writing but if you can believe I don't have anything to say.
I was thinking the other day, what did James Lee Richard die of? Was it a heart attack? I'm sure Gerald knows. Gerald keeps up with all those kind of things. Maybe we should have a Mass said somewhere for all the class of 55.
Any takers let me know if ya'll want to do it.
Rickey
Rickey
USA - Friday, February 26, 2010 at 07:42:06 (MST)
Thanks Brenda.
Doris
USA - Friday, February 26, 2010 at 06:24:26 (MST)
I forgot to tell you that Doris' birthday was Feb. 21. Happy Belated Birthday, Doris!
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 20:39:47 (MST)
Brenda I thought I had answered your question about smoking but I must have done something wrong...I quit about 9 years ago. Will offer my mass tomorrow morning for Julien's health!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 19:42:08 (MST)
Julien Judice is in the hospital and is not doing well. He had surgery (a shunt) and was doing ok but he began coughing up blood. That's all I know. Please pray for him.
Suzanne
USA - Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 09:41:27 (MST)
Marshall, when did you stop smoking?
Brenda
USA - Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 16:58:12 (MST)
Brenda, COPD is an acronim for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary (Lung)
Disease. It is a combination of Emphasema, Bronchitis, Sinus, etc. Basically it is treated with various inhalers...I use three of them...one once a day, another twice a day and a third whenever I can't breathe! It is very common, especially for people who have smoked...I was a heavy smoker for over 40 years.
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Friday, February 19, 2010 at 04:31:20 (MST)
The disturbing fact is that it is chronic when Marshall says that he has been diagnosed with it. Even scarier that Ora Ann died of it! I went to a funeral this morning of a friend who died of pancreatic cancer. Another friend died of it a few weeks ago when John was in the hospital. It is usually fatal and yet, a good friend of John's had it 7 years ago and is now cancer free and now, his WIFE has it! She is also doing well. They live in Maine and I wonder if they have the same treatment that they use down here.
Brenda
USA - Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 14:49:29 (MST)
Brenda. I had never heard of COPD either. It's an acronym for Cronic Obstructive Pulmonary Desease.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 14:27:07 (MST)
I am very sad for Pat, Gerald. Friends are so important at this time of our lives because they share most of our memories and we need them. Marshall, what exactly is COPD?
Brenda
USA - Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 07:16:29 (MST)
Pat and Gerald I will offer my Mass this morning for the peaceful repose of the soul of Ora Ann. I was diagnosed with COPD about 5 years ago. It is a very 'disabling' disease! COPD makes you realize how much you depend on breathing!!!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 06:01:30 (MST)
Sad news from Lafayette. Ora Ann Amy Langlinais, Pat's good friend and the Maid of Honor at our weding passed at 3 P.M. today. She had been fighting COPD which is a severe lung infection for several Months. She had recently been confined to her home and died there peacefully with her sister and two sons present. She was a 1958 graduate of Mount Carmel and a school teacher for most of her life. Your prayers are graciously requested.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Tuesday, February 16, 2010 at 14:59:39 (MST)
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY, EVERYONE! You might share the following website with your loved one. It's very romantic. http://video.aol.com/aolvideo/Moviefone/the-moviefone-mash-i-love-you-over-and-over-again/65779380001
Brenda
USA - Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 07:57:58 (MST)
Gerald, our little Vietnamese preist over here keeps saying it's been so cold here, because the Saints are winning. I guess he means hell is freezing over.
Doris
USA - Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 20:50:00 (MST)
Saints win the Super Bowl and it's snowing in Lafayette on 2/12/10. Is Hell going to freeze over? Let's hope!
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Friday, February 12, 2010 at 07:26:57 (MST)
The parade for the Saints was great! Where we were the people were at least 20 deep on both sides of the street. We were lucky to be on a grand stand. Everybody was so happy even though the wind was very strong and VERY cold. Tyler loved it.
Suzanne
USA - Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 08:15:58 (MST)
Whoever is in charge of the 'marque' in front of Fatima in Lafayette must really be a Saints fan!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 05:02:28 (MST)
Kings and Queens have and a not an o.
J.J.
USA - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 at 03:03:49 (MST)
Our Mardi Gras was this weekend. The ball was Saturday and the Parade was super bowl Sunday. The parade started early so that we could watch the game. We lost some riders to Fla. My Mardi Grasgroup started about 35 years ago. We had three hay wagons and 30 riders. We how have 18 two and three story floats and over 300 members.
Heard on the float:
None sense!
War & Peace
I am the king of war and
I am the king of peace,
We are brothers and
We follow one another
Good and evil
I am good and
I am evil and
if you believe in
one of us, they you must believe in both of us,
because we presuppose one another.
Vulgar
(for those over 60)
We are the king and queen of forts
And we are no longer reliable.
You hear thing like this when you have fried chicken and black Russians for breakfast on the float at 9:00 am. The parade proved that there is more dental work that the profession can take care of in the next 50 years. People trying to kill one another for penny beads that they later drop and not pick up.
J. J.
USA - Monday, February 08, 2010 at 16:52:00 (MST)
Thanks, Sue, my brother thinks Madelyn reminds him of me also.
Doris
USA - Monday, February 08, 2010 at 10:46:50 (MST)
Sorry Doris, Madelyn is your great grandaughter, right? It's hard to keep up with all these children. I meant that there is a little of you in that expression of hers. We are going to the parade in New Orleans tomorrow. I had promised Tyler that if the Saints won I would take him to the parade. He was lucky enough to go to several games, his other grandmother has season tickets.Did any of you see the headline in the sports section of the paper tody. DAT'S DAT! It's justs wonderful.
Suzanne
USA - Monday, February 08, 2010 at 09:21:10 (MST)
Are we happy or what?
Brenda
USA - Monday, February 08, 2010 at 07:53:51 (MST)
What a wild night in Louisiana it must have been last night!!!!! Sue Madelyn looking a little like her grandmother, did you mean Pam?
doris
USA - Monday, February 08, 2010 at 06:28:50 (MST)
GO SAINTS!!!! The French Quarter was wild tonight! I heard Lafayette was too!!!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Sunday, February 07, 2010 at 21:50:03 (MST)
WHO DAT? WON THE SUPER BOWL
larry miller
USA - Sunday, February 07, 2010 at 21:04:45 (MST)
O.P. I hope you and Shirley are bunkered down during the blizzard you guys are having in the DC area. Hope you all did not lose your electricity like many people in VA did! That wet snow is so dangerous! LU all
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Saturday, February 06, 2010 at 16:55:52 (MST)
Mardi Gras is next week and the last bead is sewn on the LAST dress. Yea! Now I have a little time to myself. Doris, that little Madelyn looks a little like her grandmother.I bet her dress was the first heirloom dress you made. I made the same dress in pink but sadly we lost it when Michelle's house burned down. Hopefully Caroline will want one for Emily's first Communion. We're all anxiously waiting for the big game tomorrow. Yvette says that most all the hotels in New Orleans are full and the city of buzzing. I promised Tyler that is the Saints win I will take him to the parade Tuesday afternoon. Should be fun.
Suzanne
USA - Saturday, February 06, 2010 at 14:06:34 (MST)
You pegged her right Marshall!! She is a little devil at times and can certainly be a little tomboy. She really is a good child. Just loves people and loves to intertain them. She can be so funny, she is such a delight for all of our family.
Doris
USA - Friday, February 05, 2010 at 17:04:24 (MST)
Yes indeed Madelyn is a beautiful child Doris...and you did a great job of sewing on the dress! Madelyn has that 'devilish' smile in the second photo. From the scratch on her knee, she looks like she might be a Tomboy too!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Thursday, February 04, 2010 at 13:31:41 (MST)
Doris, where does the time go??? It seems like just yesterday Madelyn was born! That dress is gorgeous and you should be proud to have made it. What an heirloom it will be!
Brenda
USA - Thursday, February 04, 2010 at 08:50:51 (MST)
Yes Brenda it is in the 70's during the day, but I still like the pool at 87 before I'll go in. I bet John is happy to be home where he can get some sleep
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Monday, February 01, 2010 at 04:39:55 (MST)
I hope you had a good birthday, Marshall, and that it was warm enough to enjoy your clean pool. Oh, I forgot it was a heated pool. I have some nice pictures of it. I might be the next one to have a 73rd birthday because mine is in Feb. I feel every day of it now as I must have come down with something that is going around. We are home and taking it easy. Our son, Johnny is here with us, waiting on us hand and foot; a change for him, I'm sure.
Brenda
USA - Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 11:36:30 (MST)
Birthday wishes from Cajun Country Marshall. We ran into Earl Arnold last night at a Mass upstairs in the old Immaculata seminary on the Breaux Bridge Highway. Last time I went there was for a basketball game against the seminarians. Early fifties, I think. I told him it was your birthday and he thanked me for informing him. He was always one of the nicest people you could ever meet.
Looks like the betting line for the Saints game went from plus 4 to plus 51/2. That means a lot of people think the Colts will win so they increased the point spread to encourage betting on the Saints. We shall see, as they say.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 09:06:02 (MST)
I think Rickey answwered your question about the oldest in the class O.P. Wilbert Richard was the oldest...I actually thought I was the youngest! I'm celebrating by cleaning the pool and working in the yard....thanking God I am still healthy enough to do that!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 10:13:29 (MST)
OP don't you remember I was 73 last November. I am a year older than you. Of course I don't celebratr birthdays now I celebrate anniversaries. Bou you are getting forgetfull. Keep taking those pills.
Rickey
USA - Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 09:57:20 (MST)
First of all Happy Birthday Marshall.
Now to other things. Brenda I haven't written before because I went to the triple and didn't have any pain or anything else. I didn't want to build up hopes and then if he had problems so I didn't want you to worry. I knew the doctors know what to do. Anyway I'm glad he is much better and will improve everyday. I guess I was lucky in that fact. Now I feel great and keep having good checkups.
Take care and God Bless all of you.
Rickey
USA - Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 09:53:01 (MST)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Marshall!! You made it to another birthday. That's how we celebrate now. Are you the oldest in the class? I think you would be 73 now, right?
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Woodbridge, VA USA - Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 08:11:47 (MST)
Brenda ,I am sorry about John’s heart problem. I hope that he recovers quickly. The medication made me goofy for several months. Lita had to put up with me. I hope that John reacts to the dope better that I did.
J. J. <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
Larose, La USA - Friday, January 29, 2010 at 09:41:18 (MST)
Brenda, Charles was like that after his lobectomy. The nurses had to put on the alarm on his bed. It was the morphine doing it they told me. He would have pulled all the tubes out of him and climbed out of bed if we wouldn't have stopped him.
Doris
USA - Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 12:42:54 (MST)
We did have an unusual happening yesterday. Because of one of his medications, John got completely disoriented and was talking out of his head. He kept trying to get out of the bed and it was day to remember! I kept thinking of those people whose spouses have dementia and have to watch them constantly. That must be so difficult for one person. Fortunately, John is himself today as they took him off that medication. Thanks again for everything.
Brenda
USA - Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 10:22:42 (MST)
Amen to that Brenda!!!! We do have some GREAT surgeons. I would probably be in a wheel chair and couldn't move my arms, if not for good surgeons. So glad to hear John is doing better.
Doris
USA - Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 19:10:03 (MST)
Just came home for a bath, etc. John has improved a lot and is now at the same point that all of you were at this time after surgery: lots of pain!!! It is all downhill from here, or is it uphill? Neither sounds right. Thank you all for your prayers. I can't wait until he is 100% and last year's news! Great surgeons are God's gift to us!
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 10:51:21 (MST)
Brenda you asked how to be sure your donation was going to the people of Haiti. I just heard from a student I taught in Abbeville in the '60's. He is now a priest and working in Haiti. If any of you are still looking for a place to donate, please send your offering to: Father Glenn Meaux, Haiti Mission Headquarters Abbeville, P.O. Box 1400, Abbeville, LA 70511.
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 21:06:19 (MST)
Brenda you asked how to be sure your donation was going to the people of Haiti. I just heard from a student I taught in Abbeville in the '60's. He is now a priest and working in Haiti. If any of you are still looking for a place to donate, please send your offering to: Father Glenn Meaux, Haiti Mission Headquarters Abbeville, P.O. Box 1400, Abbeville, LA 70511.
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 21:06:06 (MST)
Brenda, I just wanted you to know that my scripture study group said a special prayer for John and you this morning. They also promised to remember him in their prayers. Their prayers are pretty powerful. Believe me I know....
Doris
USA - Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 18:13:43 (MST)
I didn't mean to relax that much Brenda...passing out in the elevator! Glad to hear that John is on the mend. Prayers and Masses continue. LU all
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 07:13:21 (MST)
Turns out that John's surgery was not routine! He has been in critical condition until this morning and I just received a call that they have taken him off the breathing machine. Maybe the operation was too soon after him being on Plavix and asperin, because it was difficult for them to stop his bleeding. Last night he had a fever of 103+ and very low blood pressure. The person who just called me said that he was able to give them my phone number, a significant improvement from the person I saw yesterday! AND, of all things, Kathleen, Johnny, Margaret, Elizabeth and I gave blood yesterday and,when we were leaving,I blacked out in the hospital elevator causing no end of commotion. Things are looking up now and I am so relieved. I don't know if they will put him in a room as they had intended yesterday, but I can wait, knowing that he is on the mend. Thank you for all of your best wishes. I know we felt supported by your prayers.
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 05:44:05 (MST)
Just relax Brenda. It's all out of your hands. It is so frequent these days, that it is almost routine! At "our" age, I understand that the anesthia is the worse part of the surgery! But the 'stuff' that they use is a lot better than when we were young...I had absolutely no after effects at all. Just make sure he does all of his 'breathing' exercises and walking after surgery. But John is a walker anyway, so I am sure that will be easy for him. John you are in my prayers and Masses.
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Sunday, January 24, 2010 at 05:50:17 (MST)
John has continued to have chest pains since his episode three weeks ago, so he is going to have triple by-pass surgery Monday morning. I know so many of you have gone through it already, so maybe you have some helpful tips for me as his "coach."
Brenda
USA - Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 08:27:21 (MST)
I glad Shirley made you post the family photo on the stairs O.P. What a beautiful family! "They" are going to get you to run for something soon!
God must have been in MA Tuesday!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 19:12:34 (MST)
Ok, thought I better comment before someone fusses at me for not writing on here. We just got back from a long weekend in Richmond Va. We attended the inauguration of our Governor, Lt. Governor, Attorney General, and our District House of Delegates guy. I put most of the photos up on Facebook, in case some of you want to see them. I think I will find a couple of us to put on here later. We are also happy about the results up in Mass. yesterday.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Woodbridge, VA USA - Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 14:01:48 (MST)
Thanks Marshall. What a beautiful family.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr>
USA - Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 13:57:57 (MST)
Hey Gerald! First you have to help ME understand! What do you mean by my "older family" and my "Younger Family"? I only have one family! Franny (Francis) is my second to oldest brother...there were Lewis, Francis, Hugh and Me. We had 5 sisters...Marie Therese, Jeanne, Camille,Sophie and Celine. Marie Therese, Lewis and Camille are deceased! Of the In laws, Marie Therese's husband, Howard Beagle is deceased, Jeanne's husband, Elmo Authement is deceased, Lewis's wife Delores Rabilais is deaceased and Francis's wife, Barbara Quebideau, just died. Hope this helps!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 05:01:56 (MST)
Rickey, I think besides our wonderful prayers, we can do some corporal works of mercy (feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, etc.) by sending donations to Catholic Relief Services, U.S. Conference of Bishops or any other bona fide group, if we’re able to do so. I saw firsthand how bad conditions were when I went to Port au Prince to volunteer with my brother Charles’ Cursillo group in 1985. While I was distributing supper to patients in a clinic, I noticed a lady stuffing her bread under her pillow, and when I asked her why she did that, she replied in her patois French, “Tomorrow maybe there won’t be any food.” Charles got word that two of the three mission buildings where we stayed were destroyed, and three workers and two guests were killed by the earthquake. However, despite his little health problems, he’s planning to go back next summer. Maybe not I, but that’s what Mother Theresa would do.
Henrietta
USA - Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 19:29:22 (MST)
Marshall please help me to understand your family. Is that your older family brother and not your younger family brother?
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 11:48:14 (MST)
That's a common mistake Doris...that's why I posted it on 'the site'! I figured people would get it confused when they read the Obit. In our own family we have to distinguish "Franny's Barb" or "Hugh's Barb"! Your prayers are appreciated.
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 05:49:49 (MST)
Sorry Marshall, I got the wrong brother. Not Hugh.
Doris
USA - Monday, January 18, 2010 at 19:21:49 (MST)
Marshall, so sorry to hear about Barbara. I certainly will pray for her and Hugh.
Doris
USA - Monday, January 18, 2010 at 19:09:48 (MST)
The thing in Haiti is terrible. We thought it was bad when the earthquake hit Los Angles but it was nothing compared to this. Those poor people had it bad before and this is only going to make it worst. About all we can do is pray for them. We knew two of the sisters who were there and now they have died probalby from a disease they got from there. Believe me you can't imagine how bad it really is, even befor the quake. Barbara was supposed to go but she was advised not to go. They said it would be too hard on her. That was when she was working. Oh well God know what's best. Just pray for them
Rickey
USA - Monday, January 18, 2010 at 06:30:39 (MST)
If we wish to donate through our Catholic Church, they recommend that we send donations for Haiti to its U.S. official agencies, Catholic Relief Services and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
The local archdiocese's office posted the following article on its website.
"Bishop Michael Jarrell of the Diocese of Lafayette, has urged a special collection this weekend or as soon as possible thereafter for relief efforts in Haiti. In a letter to the bishops of the United States, Cardinal Francis George, President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), said 'These funds will be used to support the efforts of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and Catholic Relief Services, the official international humanitarian agency of the U.S. Catholic Church, as they respond to immediate emergency needs for such necessities as water, food, shelter and medical care, as well as to the long term need to rebuild after widespread destruction, and to the pastoral and reconstruction needs of the Church in Haiti.'
"Catholic Relief Services is already mounting a major emergency response to this severe disaster and has committed an initial $5 million to fund relief efforts ....
"Additional information on the U.S. Catholic community's response to this emergency and how U.S. Catholics can help can be found at CRS.org and USCCB.org"
Henrietta
USA - Friday, January 15, 2010 at 09:53:22 (MST)
What a catastrophe in Haiti. I think Catholic Charities would be a good, reliable place to send donations, and I feel certain our Parish churches will be having special collections for the Haitians. My brother, Dr. Charles Bertrand, who attended Cathedral, but graduated at Immaculata Seminary in 1954, has been going to Haiti for the last 20+ years, helping Mother Theresa’s Order of nuns, giving medical care and feeding the people in Port au Prince. Charles met with Mother Theresa, who greatly inspired him. I was fortunate to travel and work with his Cursillo group in Haiti in 1985. It was quite an experience, seeing 70 babies in a hospital who were born with Aids, visiting hospital wards and seeing patients with Aids, tuberculosis, etc. We gave out weekly food supplies (usually from large bowls of beans and rice), and one young boy in line brought as his container, a gallon paint can with dried paint inside. I can only imagine what living conditions must be over there now. We must pray for them, and offer whatever help we can.
Henrietta
USA - Thursday, January 14, 2010 at 21:00:55 (MST)
Oh, Marshall,I am so sorry to hear of Barbara's death; particularly since your brother is so dependent on her. I guess most elderly couples would like to go together. I know I would. Suzanne, I have been seeing those notices. Today they said something about credit card companies skimming off the top of the Haitian donations. You don't know how to give these days. If you write a check, they continue to send you things forever AND sell your address to other similar companies. Whatever we can do, it will never be enough to give those poor people back their lives.
Brenda
USA - Thursday, January 14, 2010 at 15:43:44 (MST)
Please pray for the peaceful repose of the soul of Barbara, the wife of my brother Francis. She died today. Please keep him in your prayers also, he was TOTALLY dependent on her. She had open heart surgery in Lafayette the week before Christmas. She was at our family reunion over the Christmas holidays and seemed fine. They rushed her back to the hospital last night but she never recovered.
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Thursday, January 14, 2010 at 14:22:42 (MST)
Brenda, if you watch CNN you will find all kinds of places to contribute. They list them almost every time they break. It is really hard to watch this. They need our prayers.
Suzanne
USA - Thursday, January 14, 2010 at 13:23:38 (MST)
O.P., do you think that Food for the Poor is the best way to send a donation for the Haitian calamity? It looks like they bill you and that's not what I am hoping to do.
Brenda
USA - Thursday, January 14, 2010 at 08:14:02 (MST)
So glad everything is over and O.K. Brenda. Sometimes things like this is just a wake up call for us. Makes us realize that any thing can happen to us.
Doris
USA - Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 05:31:18 (MST)
Well, we are home!! John's catherization showed some plaque, but didn't require a stint or anything. They are going to treat him with medicine. He is his old self again, after six days in the hospital. I truly appreciate all of your kind words, prayers, and inquiries. I realize that many of you had had much more serious problems and I feel blessed to count you all as friends. Take care in this freezing weather!
Brenda
USA - Monday, January 11, 2010 at 19:19:54 (MST)
Ha! Brenda! I'm glad you corrected your statement about John getting rest in the hospital! I think I know what you mean, just being in the hospital with immediate care if he has anymore heart complications relieves the strain, but I'm sure he gets more sleep at home! Prayers and masses continue.
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Sunday, January 10, 2010 at 21:09:03 (MST)
Thank you, everyone! We are just in a waiting mode until he can have the heart-cath and we can go home. They are certainly overly cautious, but he's getting a rest in the hospital. Well, not quite, we have not had one hour without a visitor or, of course, a hospital staff person coming in--day and night. I know all of you know how that is.
Brenda
USA - Sunday, January 10, 2010 at 06:27:18 (MST)
Brenda, so sorry to hear about John. I will keep him in my prayers. Try to keep us posted.
Doris
USA - Saturday, January 09, 2010 at 06:28:25 (MST)
Man is it cold. Us people down south aren't made for this cold weather. Can you imagine how cold OP and Shirley must be. I spoke to him yesterday and he told me it had snowed about an inch. My son was in Tennessee the other day and he said the temp was 19 degrees.
Yesterday we went to play bingo and saw Clyde Judice. He looks great. Willie Baronet was also there. In fact he is there every month almost.
Brenda sorry to hear about John. Hope it can be corrected. J.J. has had to put us with a lot of that. I guess he is doing well because he hasn't told me about any trouble.
Doris and Heneretta I was amiss in not telling you how beautiful ya'll family is. I can't seem to be able to get my family together for a picture. Oh I almost forgot Larry your family looks great also. Larry I can't wait to see you son call USL baseball. I think he is one of the best the have.
Rickey
USA - Saturday, January 09, 2010 at 05:56:10 (MST)
Brenda I am sorry about John's heart problem. I have been there and know how hard it can be.
J. J.
J. J. Erny <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
Larose, La USA - Saturday, January 09, 2010 at 01:07:58 (MST)
Well, it's our turn! Early yesterday morning John began experiencing chest pains and was taken to the hospital where he is now. He will be there until at least Tuesday as they are going to do a heart catherization Monday and won't release him until Tuesday. I trust that it won't be too serious, but something to be taken care of soon. I have had to come home to see about Sammy and my parakeets in this subfreezing weather. Hope all of you are warm tonight.
Brenda
USA - Friday, January 08, 2010 at 18:49:20 (MST)
Thanks, Brenda & Doris. Karen does favor me. Brenda’s website prompting led me to send our November 2008 50th anniversary photos. This was a most memorable evening, with a slide show of our photos through the years; blessing by our pastor. Fr. Steve Leblanc; very touching speeches by our children, who presented a framed official statement by Governor Jindal; extended family present, and my brother Dr. Charles Bertrand at our table; continuous favorite music, from Elvis to Bocelli; flowers arranged by sister-in-law Claire Moody; serenade by nephew Peter Graser, on guitar, with group sing-along; display of our original wedding album; an anniversary cake, a gift from granddaughter Michelle; and my Bertrand family group doing the chicken dance.
Henrietta
USA - Wednesday, January 06, 2010 at 20:30:35 (MST)
CCS Foundation sent an email from Friends of the ten Christian Brothers who still live at the retirement home, asking to spread the word that they need volunteers to help deliver meals prepared by the Petroleum Club every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday evening. If you can help pick up these dinners from the Petroleum Club, please contact Tom Grote at 266-7136. Other providers are Deano’s, possibly Popeye’s, and Pizza Hut. Friends of the Christian Brothers thank all who have faithfully supported the brothers over the years.
Henrietta
USA - Wednesday, January 06, 2010 at 20:11:57 (MST)
Those are beautiful pictures, Henrietta. You and your daughter could have been in that commercial "Which one is the mother?" Tonight, 28 degrees!! Must seem almost warm to O.P. and Shirley!
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, January 05, 2010 at 20:22:51 (MST)
What a beautiful picture of your family Henrietta. Your daughter looks just like you.
Doris
USA - Tuesday, January 05, 2010 at 07:07:13 (MST)
We sure enjoyed Marshall's visit. We usually get together every year when he come in. I sent OP my son and his wife's picture and I guess he will put it on the website. Barbara and I have another cruise planned for Feb. It's the KTDY radio cruise. Our agency has booked 900 plus from the Lafayette area. Last year we had a blast with them. Barbara has such a hard time walking since her stroke that I plan on bringing her new scotter with us. She should be able to get along with that. We are going to leave from New Orleans than go to Key West and then to Freeport and Nassua in the Bahamas.
I will try to keep up with the New Year's resolution OP has given us. Everybody keep smiling.
Rickey
USA - Tuesday, January 05, 2010 at 05:36:00 (MST)
The weather followed me Brenda! It was in the low 30's a couple of nights ago and in the high 30's last night...we were saved by the cloud cover...which kept it warm...but they are predicting another freeze for tonight! Since it will be relatively cold all day, I think they might have 'guessed' correctly for tonight. I guess you guys were spared too...because when I left Saturday morning, they were predicting snow for Monday in Lafayette! Of course the weather people always get excited in Lafayette when it gets cold and they precict anything!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Tuesday, January 05, 2010 at 05:25:11 (MST)
Thanks for the complement Brenda. All nine of our grandchildren are in the picture and it was taken on the steps of St John Cathedral where it all started almost 50 years ago. Our oldest are the twins and they are the first boy on the lower left and the last girl on the upper right. They are both juniors at LSU and ULL respectively. Beautiful picture of your family Henrietta. Hard to believe our next one will be a great grandchild.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Monday, January 04, 2010 at 13:52:13 (MST)
Gerald, has that beautiful picture of your grandchildren been there a long time? I can't believe I missed it. Are all of your grandchildren in the picture? Marshall, I hope it wasn't too cold while you were in La. I am ready for this cold weather to be over! Johnny's family is still here. They are leaving one day this week, then, back to retirement!
Brenda
USA - Monday, January 04, 2010 at 06:37:32 (MST)
WOW! Just got back home and opened the CC55 Guest Book! Congrats to all who sent in pictures! Thanks for your prayers also...trip to LA was great. Saw Ray and Jane on way down! Had lunch with Rickey and Dale Gaudet and their wives at Zea's in Lafayette. Had a mini reunion with class I taught in Abbeville in '63...man are they getting old! Oysters are not as salty as they usually are in LA! Must be the storms of recent history! Pat's in Henderson is still the best food in all of Acadia...if you have not been there recently go! They have a 1,000 seat dance hall, plus a 22 room motel! They are putting Henderson on the map! Hope everyone continues to write in the Guest Book...O.P. has a good idea for our New Years resolution!!!! Now to begin my diet!!!!!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Monday, January 04, 2010 at 05:50:57 (MST)
Gosh Brenda what an accomplishment to have all but one left out of the picture. I can't remember when was the last time we had all the family in one picture.
Doris
USA - Saturday, January 02, 2010 at 16:00:08 (MST)
Great family picture, Doris! We took ours last Sunday, but haven't seen them yet. One person will be missing, but hope to be photo-shopped in to it.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, January 02, 2010 at 07:14:55 (MST)
23 in the picture, but six were missing so that is 29. Whew we're tired!!!!!!
Doris
USA - Friday, January 01, 2010 at 13:17:14 (MST)
What a beautiful family Doris. 23 and I had to count twice.
gerald reaux <Lafayette>
USA - Friday, January 01, 2010 at 10:49:11 (MST)
I'll be No. 3 to write this year. Hopefully we can get more than 9 to write. Are you reading this Harvey? Happy New Year from Cajun Land. My oldest son Jerry has a birthday today and we always have the family over for cabbage roll's and black eye pea's. We are only 16 this year because my oldest grandson is in Orlando pulling for those Tigers. I hope they can beat those Lions. I am hopefull but remember "Lions and Tigers and bears" (beers).
Gerald <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Friday, January 01, 2010 at 08:50:54 (MST)
I just told my family goodbye they have been here since Mon. We have partied everyday. Oh what fun. I can't remember having such fun with them. The only thing is I wanted to cry every time I thought of Jared and Tiffany missing out on the fun. But new babies come first. Our little Madelyn Rose was so precious. She is really a trip not even two yet and kept up with all the adults dancing and singing, and oh the expressions on that childs face are priceless. She was up til midnight right along with everyone else last night.Now to cleaning house. But first I want to wish everyone of you a very Happy and prosperous New Year. I will send O.P. a family picture.
Doris
USA - Friday, January 01, 2010 at 08:42:43 (MST)
Happy New Year, everyone! I hope this year is everything you would want it to be with good news always and good health! I got a surprise this morning when I sat down at my computer. A reminder to archive old stuff appeared on the screen and I thought I'd delete whatever I should. I came across all of Betty's e-mails (102 of them). Reading them was so bittersweet. I guess we write just like we speak and there was Betty, telling me about her history in Abbeville and Lafayette, and her memories of her family, RACHAEL, Padre, her health and advising me about my concerns. Seeing her picture every time I open this website is also bittersweet. I'll have to save reading Avis' letters until another day.
Brenda
USA - Friday, January 01, 2010 at 07:03:59 (MST)
HAPPY NEW YEAR to all my classmates and others who are reading this Guestbook. I have a suggestion for a New Years Resolution you can ALL keep.
Here it is: "Resolve to WRITE on the Guestbook at least three times a week, AND read it EVERY day."
YES WE CAN!
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Woodbridge, VA USA - Friday, January 01, 2010 at 06:23:19 (MST)
Yes,Cathy is our official family picture taker and does a good job of it. I would recommend her highly to anyone, Myron is the one that umpires at ULL and also does some non-conference SEC games.
Larry
USA - Wednesday, December 30, 2009 at 09:59:27 (MST)
Yes,Cathy is our official family picture taker and does a good job of it. I would recommend her highly to anyone, Myron is the one that umpires at ULL and also does some non-conference SEC games.
Larry
Larry
USA - Wednesday, December 30, 2009 at 09:58:03 (MST)
Larry did Kathy take the picture? I haven't spoken to her in a while. She was supposed to call us to visit but she has never done that. I guess she is very busy. She never has been one to stay idle long. It's a great picture. Is the boy with the beard the one that umpires the games at UL? Can't wait for baseball season to start. It starts on Feb. 19.
Rickey
USA - Wednesday, December 30, 2009 at 06:24:01 (MST)
Merry Christmas and a Holy and Prosperous New Year to all of you. Many thanks for all the prayers that was said for Myles. He is doing real well,but, the doctors will not release him to go back to work.His tests are not what they would like them to be.maybe the new year will be better for him.
The family as shown are as follows:
top row---Marshall(son) and Donna; Myles(son) and Missy;--I don't know the next two;Margaret(daughter,her husband had surgery the 21st,Had a mass the size of an orange in his shoulder(benign);Dusty and Myron(son)
On Sofa---on ends-Claudia and Dulcie (for Myron) the two with the long hair (Macy and Taylor(Marshall);the two in the black Mallory and Magdalyn(Margaret); the two on the ends are Tucker & Sidney(Myles) and last in the gold dress--Ella Grace(Myron).
This is our clan.Hope I didn't confuse you all.
God Bless all of you.
Larry Miller
USA - Tuesday, December 29, 2009 at 21:24:45 (MST)
Great family picture, Larry! We took ours, but I have yet to see them. Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and is still enjoying family and friends, counting down to 2010. I heard that you are supposed to refer to 2010 as "twenty-ten" instead of 2 thousand and ten, but I don't know if that will catch on.
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, December 29, 2009 at 15:14:30 (MST)
Nice group Larry. I think I know two of your son's, but not sure of the other adults. Could you let us know?
gerald <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Tuesday, December 29, 2009 at 14:04:47 (MST)
Oh Charles and I haven't even opened our presents yet. Nor have we had our get together with the Woodlands family. But our Fla and La. families are coming in on Mon. I will try my hardest to get everyone together at one time and take a picture. Maybe we can do some magic too and put in Jared and his little family.
Doris
USA - Friday, December 25, 2009 at 22:35:48 (MST)
Just wanted to thank all of you for the prayers for Tiffany. She delivered our little Christmas present Christmas eve afternoon. Her blood pressure is slowly going down. But it is going down. Thank God. Jayden was a couple of weeks early, but a beautiful baby. I sent pictures so I am sure O.P. will post them as soon as he gets them. Baby is doing fine. Little, but she is a beauty. Jared is so proud.
Doris
USA - Friday, December 25, 2009 at 22:27:23 (MST)
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF YOU!!!!!!!! I hope that everyone will be celebrating with friends and famly. Stay warm and I love each and every one of you.
Suzanne
USA - Friday, December 25, 2009 at 09:48:14 (MST)
Merry Christmas, everyone!! Well Christmas Eve is almost over. All of the family have gone home (except Stephen and Olivia), I've already gone to mass, turkey po boys, gifts exchanged and time for bed!!! One of my grandson's gave me a DVD that he had made of our 1999 Christmas gathering and talent show. Everyone is now 10 years older and howled with laughter when they saw their young selves "on stage". What a group!!
Brenda
USA - Thursday, December 24, 2009 at 21:09:30 (MST)
Looks like we are down to the magnificient 9 on this web site thanks to O.P. we have facebook that have more pictures but not as popular to us. I want to wish all of you a Merry Christmas. We are celebrating this Christmas at my youngest son Raymond's house. All 17 of us and we have already taken our cousin picture this year at the Cathedral. It is a serious present opening celebration. Congratulations on your 50th to J.J. and Lita. We hope to have ours on Jan. 23, 2010.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr#aol.com>
USA - Thursday, December 24, 2009 at 09:39:16 (MST)
Stephen and his little girl, Olivia, are on their way!! His wife had to fly to Germany as her mother had emergency surgery, (cancer, not as bad as they thought). Johnny's family comes in Christmas evening. Hope we can take a group picture Saturday morning and Margaret can add Bissera's picture by her magic. Expect to see some of your family pictures here soon. Patsy, Gerald, Doris, Marshall, J.J., O.P., Henrietta, Rickey, and the rest of you (who read and don't write)wish you would send O.P. your family pictures so we can enjoy them.
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 14:56:20 (MST)
Yes, it is wonderful to have EVERYONE together. We NEVER can have EVERYONE. There always seems to be one or two missing from the picture......
Doris
USA - Monday, December 21, 2009 at 14:43:52 (MST)
Oh, J.J., congratulations for those 50 years, made easier by having a wonderful wife and family! Your celebration sounds like it was so nice, particularly having EVERYONE there with you and Lita. I wish you many many more years together!
Brenda
USA - Monday, December 21, 2009 at 06:47:49 (MST)
Today Lita and I have been married for 50 years. They have been great years. Even the bad ones were great.
The children picked us in a lemo. and took us to Comanders Palace and we had a feast with wine and drinks and too much food. We then went to Fulton street and say the Chrismas there.
The lemo was great. It was very large. It had two bars and was stretched out to fit the whole family. We had all three children and their spouses, the four grand children and the three bonus grand children, Lita and I. We were seated in spacious comfort. It was great.
Lita was pleased with the ring that I gave her for our anniversy. She gave me a Kindle as an A. B. C. present. 1500 books in the palm of your hand.
J. J. Erny <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
Larose, La USA - Sunday, December 20, 2009 at 20:00:04 (MST)
Safe trip, Marshall! Doris, will keep the little family in my prayers--maybe a Christmas baby!
Brenda
USA - Friday, December 18, 2009 at 07:52:02 (MST)
Thanks Marshall, hope you have a safe trip. I will say prayers for your safety. Tiffany is home now. Her BP dropped to normal. BUT she has to stay completely in bed until the baby is born. Not easy for her!!!!!!
Doris
USA - Friday, December 18, 2009 at 06:04:16 (MST)
Prayers and Masses continue Doris. I'll be leaving for LA tomorrow, so I'll be out of computer contact...but just wanted you to know that I'll be praying for Tiffany, for God's Will! LU
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Friday, December 18, 2009 at 03:14:25 (MST)
Tiffany is in the hospital now. They are monitoring her blood pressure and monitoring the baby. Dr. said if it doesn't go down in a couple of days they may have to do a C. Section. They are worried about toxemia.
Doris
USA - Thursday, December 17, 2009 at 11:48:11 (MST)
Oops! I meant to say "front lawn" and not front law.
Henrietta
USA - Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 21:22:20 (MST)
Doris, Tiffany is in my prayers. Diuretics, high protein and prayer helped me with edema before our first child was born. Sarah Hyde, Foundation/Development Director at Cathedral-Carmel School sent a letter thanking our Mt. Carmel Class of 1955 for its donation to purchase a brick on its brick paver campaign. The bricks, sponsored by a partnership with Mike-Baker Brick and Southwest Group, will be placed around the flagpole located on the front law of the Cathedral-Carmel campus. They’re still accepting requests for donations for bricks (a good gift for someone who has everything), which are 100% tax deductible. Ms. Hyde can be reached at cathedralcarmel.com.
Henrietta
USA - Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 21:20:58 (MST)
PRAYER REQUEST !!!!!!!! Please remember Jared's wife,Tiffany, in your prayers. Their baby is due Jan. 5. The Dr. put her on complete bedrest today because she is swollen and her blood pressure is way too high. I am sure the baby will be all right if she is born 3 weeks early, but I am concerned about Tiffany. Thanks. There is nothing like YOUR prayers... Thanks again.
Doris
USA - Monday, December 14, 2009 at 20:17:07 (MST)
Go Saints !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Doris
USA - Monday, December 14, 2009 at 06:47:50 (MST)
I'm sorry was it "Old Dogs"? I thought it was "Old Dads", because they were old Dads.
Doris
USA - Tuesday, December 08, 2009 at 14:44:16 (MST)
Thanks for the concern Rickey. Charles is doing great. He goes back for pet scans and check-up in March. It will be three years Jan. 25. I just love funny movies like "Old Dads". It looks like "Meet the Morgans" (or something like that) coming out around Christmas, will be good also. Another funny one. I would like to see the "Frog and the Princess", also. Have to find a kid to bring for an excuse.
Doris
USA - Tuesday, December 08, 2009 at 14:42:53 (MST)
I agree Doris Old Dogs is great. I found it started a little slow but when it got into it I laughed until I almost cried. That's two shows straight that anyone3 didn't smoke or cuss or have sexual relations. It was a great show. Maybe movies are changing and we will see more movies worth seeing. By the way how is Charles? I guess things are going well because we haven't heard any different.
Keep up the good work.
Rickey
Rickey
USA - Tuesday, December 08, 2009 at 06:45:16 (MST)
Hey, y'all,you have got to see "Old Dads". It was just too too funny. I was laughing for 30 minutes after the movie was finished.
Doris
USA - Monday, December 07, 2009 at 15:57:53 (MST)
Sounds like those "old" girl friends might be "old" now. Anyone I know?
Brenda
USA - Thursday, December 03, 2009 at 16:13:58 (MST)
Ok O.P. behave yourself. You also know one much better than I. Touche'.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Thursday, December 03, 2009 at 15:45:35 (MST)
Brenda, Gerald knows some old "girlfriends" from there. ha ha
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
USA - Wednesday, December 02, 2009 at 12:09:59 (MST)
I was wondering if I might know any one who lives there. Johnny has been offered a job there and he doesn't know the first thing about the place; neither do we. I know Hurricane Rita did a lot of damage there.
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, December 02, 2009 at 06:00:09 (MST)
What do you want to know Brenda? I know that a lot of Louisianna Cajun's went over the border and settled there many, many years ago. It's not far at all from the La. border.
Doris
USA - Tuesday, December 01, 2009 at 19:45:04 (MST)
Do any of you know anything about Port Arthur, TX?
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, December 01, 2009 at 16:50:03 (MST)
As soon as Christmas is over, we really have to get on it and set a date for a night at T'frere's!! Thanks for the update on Jackie, Henrietta.
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, December 01, 2009 at 07:23:47 (MST)
Jackie Mequet Burley just called, in good spirits. She’s feeling somewhat better, recovering from her recent surgery for colon cancer. Keep up the prayers, though. Hopefully, God will see her through to restored health soon. She said her family really enjoyed Thanksgiving together, and that she’s back home in Franklin. Jackie is looking forward to our class reunion in 2010, especially it were to be a stay-over at T’Frere’s.
Henrietta
USA - Monday, November 30, 2009 at 20:16:50 (MST)
Happy Birthday, Rickey!
Brenda
USA - Monday, November 30, 2009 at 19:20:19 (MST)
Just found out Rickey is having a Birthday today. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RICKEY !!!!
Doris
USA - Monday, November 30, 2009 at 18:38:13 (MST)
God certainly has been busy using his paint brush here in the Woodlands! The trees are at their fall colors peak. They are so pretty, I can hardly keep my eyes on the road when I am driving. I hope I get a chance to ride around with my camera.
Doris
USA - Monday, November 30, 2009 at 09:40:25 (MST)
Thanks, Gerald. I'll take your word for it -- the fact that Central was where the present public library is located on Congress. I rode the school bus for years, which stopped at Central Elementary. However, that was a long time ago and we were probably so busy talking, studying or cutting up on the bus, I didn't notice or remember exactly where Central was located. You get an A for answering the trivia question.
Henrietta
USA - Sunday, November 29, 2009 at 20:06:25 (MST)
Henrietta. Your second version is correct, as I recall. I went to the 1st thru 12th living on Stewart St. When I walked to school I remember seeing Southside standing and being demolished on my way to school. Also Central was where the present library is located. As I recall they were both public elementary schools. There are pictures at the Court House of these two schools.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Sunday, November 29, 2009 at 19:11:27 (MST)
Do any of you remember where Central Elementary School was located? Was it at the current downtown main public library location on Congress Street? I thought it may have been within the block where the Gen. Mouton statue is located at intersection of Jefferson & Lee Ave. Research reveals that there was a school in that old City Hall block called Southside School that housed the public library around 1946. Could its name have later been changed to Central Elementary School? Or was Central Elementary School actually on the grounds of the current main library downtown? I'm doing PR for the Garden Club about an Arbor Day live oak tree dedication, and just want to be sure of the facts. Besides, I'm just curious.
Henrietta
USA - Sunday, November 29, 2009 at 17:29:45 (MST)
I talked to Jeanette today, she is feeling much better. She said today is Janet's birthday. This made me think that unless Janet is 73 she is the BABY of the class.
Doris
USA - Saturday, November 28, 2009 at 11:45:30 (MST)
HAPPY ANIVERSARY, O.P. and Shirely. Hope you have many, many more.....
Doris
USA - Friday, November 27, 2009 at 07:05:15 (MST)
Hope everyone had enough to eat today! Happy Thanksgiving!
Brenda
USA - Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 15:04:23 (MST)
Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving to all my classmates.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Woodbridge, VA USA - Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 05:23:00 (MST)
PRAYER REQUEST: I just talked to Jeanette. She had a stroke Thursday. She said she is doing fine now. It was a wake-up call she said. Her arm feels a little funny, but other than that she is O.K. So now she said she is on cholestrol meds and blood pressure meds. I said well, welcome to the crowd. Charles and I have been on this medicine for years, so are my children. Please remember her in your prayers.
Doris
USA - Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 18:40:03 (MST)
Brenda, your Tommy Rogers is the one I am talking about, because Pat referrs to Tommy and Nell.
Doris
USA - Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 06:05:15 (MST)
Rickey, does your friend, Tommy Rogers, have a wife named Nell Grand? She and I were at "UL" together and they went to the 50th reunion this year.
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 05:58:52 (MST)
Doris I don't think this Tommy Rogers has a sister. It must have been the other Tommy Rogers. I think that one work either for the Post Office or worked for Petroleum Hellicoper. I could be wrong but maybe OP can tell us. He used to live next door to the Rodgers on Calder St.
Rickey
USA - Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 06:53:56 (MST)
Rickey, Is that the Tommy Rogers who has a sister by the name of Pat or Patsy?
In fact she is Pat Higgins and now lives in the Woodlands. I met her at my Water Aerobics class and we have lunch together now and then with the Aerobics group.
Doris
USA - Monday, November 16, 2009 at 11:28:45 (MST)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, baby Patsy!! Hope you have a great time today!
Brenda
USA - Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 12:41:27 (MST)
I would have to say that I am very happy to be living in Baton Rouge, near 7 of my grandchildren. However, I would love to live in a small village in England for about a month or one in Italy or France. I know some of you have done that, but I guess I never will. I certainly couldn't drive on the left side of the road and John is not interested in traveling any more so I guess I can just dream.
Brenda
USA - Friday, November 13, 2009 at 14:28:54 (MST)
It looks like everybody is happy with where the live. I sometimes wonder what it would be like to move. I have lived here so long that it's too late to move now. JJ I have a son livimg om Arkansas. He live in El Dorado and he can't wait to retire from Murphy Oil Company and move to Tennessee. He said he would love to move. It's been so long since that I will have to get back on and become regular.
Had lunch with Dale Gaudet and Gaston and Tommy Rogers yesterday and of course all our wives. Theresa Broussard and Tookie Dore(the widow of Jimmie Broussard). We had a blast.
Rickey
USA - Friday, November 13, 2009 at 07:36:22 (MST)
Yes, Brenda we are lucky to be living in the Woodlands, as much as I miss my La. friends I can see the reason why God led us here. For one thing just think of how close we are to all our Houston Dr.'s who have been so instrumental in our health since we have been here. And to be close to at least two of our children and their children is a blessing. Not to mention what a fun place to live. There is always something fun going on over here. So thankful Jackie and her daughter is doing fine. God is certainly good.
Doris
USA - Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 19:28:10 (MST)
Doris, I've been thinking that you and Charles are so lucky to live in the Woodlands. Now, I'm thinking you live in Paradise! Wonderful news, Henrietta! Thanks for the update.
Brenda
USA - Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 06:31:28 (MST)
Good news. Today, I spoke with classmate Barbara Duhon Adams, who talked with a mutual friend of her's and Jackie's from Franklin. God surely must have heard all our prayers, and Fr. Marshall's Masses, because Jackie's doing fine and nothing serious was evident from the lab report from her surgery. I also hear that her daughter is also doing better. Thanks to everyone who prayed or sent her a card.
Henrietta
USA - Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 20:21:22 (MST)
J.J. I also take over ripe bananas, peel them, stick a popscicle stick in the bottom, wrap in tin foil, and freeze. My grandchildren love them frozen and sometimes I dip them in magic shell and they have chocolate covered frozen bananas. Also they can be defrosted to make a banana/nut bread. I'll have to try your recipe. When ever the store has over ripe bananas for sale, I buy them. Our tangerines are going to be plentiful this year. The oranges are few and only a handful of kumquats. I usually give baskets of citrus to my neighbors for Christmas. Oh we have a loaded lemon tree also. We have a peach, nectarine and pear tree also, but so far haven't gotten but one or two fruit from those. I think it takes a couple of years for them to mature enough to produce any fruit.
Doris
USA - Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 18:50:01 (MST)
AMEN !
J.J. Eny
USA - Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 08:24:17 (MST)
J.J., I think you lucked out this year. Praise the Lord!
Brenda
USA - Monday, November 09, 2009 at 20:24:53 (MST)
Harvest in the face of the storm. As usual too many bananas and then too many oranges this year. I have discovered and new way to fix bananas. Peal the banana and then cut the fruit into medallions and the smash the medallions with the bottom of a dinner plate. Put the product into a fry pan of hot butter and flip it and bring it out when it changes colors. Then, in difference to your waist line, cover it with Splenda. Eat hot.
J. J. Erny
USA - Monday, November 09, 2009 at 14:02:21 (MST)
JJ, be careful what you do in ref "north west ARK" That is in Tornado Alley, isn't it?
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
USA - Monday, November 09, 2009 at 12:40:45 (MST)
I feel like I'm too busy right now for a hurricane. We are in the middle of our kitchen renovation and a few other things. I TRULY hope we are not without power for any length of time!! However, we have been lucky this year with no hurricanes.
Brenda
USA - Monday, November 09, 2009 at 07:30:24 (MST)
Enough ! I have been though Cindy, Katrina, Rita, Gustave and Ike. Now there is Ida. I just got through cleaning up and repairing after Gustave and Ike. At least my house on he island has been raised 15 feet. I think that I am going to look for land in north west ARK.
J. J. Erny <judgeernymobiletel.com>
Larose, La USA - Sunday, November 08, 2009 at 19:13:34 (MST)
Doris, I never noticed that new picture of your great grandchild, Jolie. She is adorable! What a cute picture!
Brenda
USA - Friday, November 06, 2009 at 08:38:53 (MST)
Henrietta, it is so good of you to do this and give us all of the information we will need to write to Jackie. I'll do it tomorrow. Thanks!
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, November 04, 2009 at 20:05:46 (MST)
I visited with Jackie Burley today – they’re still waiting on the lab report from her surgery on Monday. Please continue prayers for Jackie, and send a card or a brief call to her at Lourdes Hospital, Room 365. She’s quite distraught about one of her beautiful daughters having an episode yesterday, and had to be admitted to a hospital. I’m very concerned that all this stress might interfere with Jackie's recovery. The address is Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center, 611 St. Landry, Lafayette, LA 70503
Henrietta
USA - Wednesday, November 04, 2009 at 17:28:26 (MST)
Henrietta, thank you for keeping us posted on the good news of Jackie's surgery. I hope all continues well.
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, November 04, 2009 at 07:18:13 (MST)
Great news about Jackie, Heneritta! Prayers and Masses continue!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Tuesday, November 03, 2009 at 04:46:24 (MST)
Great news about Jackie, Heneritta! Prayers and Masses continue!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Tuesday, November 03, 2009 at 04:46:13 (MST)
Sorry, I meant to say Jackie Mequet Burley's children ...
Henrietta
USA - Monday, November 02, 2009 at 18:42:18 (MST)
I just spoke with Barbara Mequet Burley’s children Don and Barbara, at Lourdes Hospital. They said Jackie’s doing fine, was out of surgery at 11:30 a.m. today, and that the surgeon also removed 14" of colon, as a precaution. They expect the lab report within the next few days. Keep up the prayers for Jackie’s complete recovery.
Henrietta
USA - Monday, November 02, 2009 at 18:40:11 (MST)
Thanks for keeping us posted, Henrietta. I will pray for Jackie.
Brenda
USA - Friday, October 30, 2009 at 08:15:12 (MST)
Asking for prayers for our classmate, Jackie Mequet Burley. Jackie is scheduled for surgery next Monday at Lourdes for a colon tumor. Jackie was in good spirits when I visited with her today in Franklin, at the annual District III Garden Club Meeting, where she volunteered with her Franklin Garden Club, which was hosting this event. Please keep her in your prayers.
Henrietta
USA - Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 21:14:16 (MST)
I am back in the full swing of things after my shoulder surgery. Back to water aerobics. I can't tell you how good it makes you feel. I would strongly encourage any of you out there with arthiritus to try it. After 2 months of not doing it, I was really getting stiff. Now I feel like I can move again. Go out there and find some place with an indoor pool that has H2O aerobics and try it. I'm talking to you men out there too. I go to the YMCA. We have a class 6 days a week and Mon. Tues. and Wed. there are two classes. That is how popular it is over here.
Doris
USA - Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 08:31:28 (MST)
Not quite yet Brenda, I am sure we will have a few summer days before it is all over.
Doris
USA - Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 11:23:12 (MST)
I think we skipped Fall this year!
Brenda
USA - Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 08:14:27 (MST)
I know Brenda,my grandchildren from Fla. are like that I only got to see them once a year when they were little. Pennye was saying that just Fri. She said Mom I am so sorry you were not near when my children were little. Oh and I do miss that too. My other grandchildren at least lived just an hour or two away so we got to see them at least once every month or so. And Chuck and Pam would let them come spend a week or so with me at a time. But Pennye's children just never had that kind of bonding. That is why I love living near Mitch's little ones and have had that bonding with them. I wish I could now move back to Lake Charles, so I could be near Jared's baby. But I probably wouldn't get to see my little boys from here much if we were to move back.
Doris
USA - Sunday, October 18, 2009 at 18:33:47 (MST)
Yes, I do, Doris! We have one other little one, Stephen's 3 year old, Olivia. We only get to see her about once a year and on Skype. She really doesn't know us, but I'm anxious to see her again this Christmas to try to establish some kind of a relationship that I had when I babysat with her for three weeks two years ago. She was just too young to remember.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 15:44:29 (MST)
I know how you feel Brenda. Of course most of my grandchildren are already grown and I am seeing them becoming fine adults, but I have one grandchild yet to be born and I was thinking the same thing the other day. Of course I do also have the three little boys over here that I would love to see what they become, but I know I won't be around when they do become adults. But it is so much fun having them still little enough to enjoy the little things they do and say as little children, isn't it?
Doris
USA - Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 12:04:24 (MST)
Those are Elizabeth's two. I babysit with them a whole lot and am enjoying them so much. I think they are very smart. In fact, Katherine, age 4, was tested to begin Pre-K a few weeks ago and she tested Gifted with an I-Q of 140+. I brought John a coloring book today about trucks, etc. I was pointing out the trucks and John, age 2, told me that "that is a front loader", "that is an excavator", "that is a crane", "that is a bull dozer", etc. His paternal grandfather is a John Deere man and I think he taught him those things. I hope I live long enough to see what these two will become; in fact, all of my grandchildren. It is just hitting me recently that that might not happen and it saddens me.
Brenda
USA - Friday, October 16, 2009 at 19:31:16 (MST)
Brenda, whose children? Katherine sure has your eyes. They are beautiful.
Doris
USA - Friday, October 16, 2009 at 15:12:01 (MST)
Thanks, Marshall. I think so too!
Brenda
USA - Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 14:23:44 (MST)
Precious kids Breda!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 03:57:35 (MST)
I forgot to mention that I did go to see "Agnes of God." Agnes did a wonderful job singing the Latin parts of the mass; most of it she sang off stage. In addition to the two nuns, I brought my 90 year old neighbor. During the play she opened her purse and took out a bag of cough drops. For what seemed like 5 minutes, she crinkled that bag trying to get out a cough drop!!! How do you admonish such a person?? People were shooting daggers at her and finally she got it out and put the bag back into her purse. During intermission, I suggested that she take some out and keep them in her hand. She couldn't understand why. Bill might not let me bring her again.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 07:42:28 (MST)
Yes, J.J. I can't remember any words from current songs, but I can sing all of the old Latin hymns and the Latin mass we sang our "whole" lives at the Cathedral. I also can't remember anyone's names then or now, but I can remember that Latin.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 07:34:18 (MST)
I notice a Brother Alfred, a Christian Brother, died at the age 90. They have a picture of him in the Obit of the Advertizer...I don't remember him ever teacing us? Does anyone?
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 05:12:53 (MST)
Brenda you are amazing. You remember the mass in Latin an can remember and sing the old chants.
J. J. Erny
USA - Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 01:36:05 (MST)
I agree with you about the Latin Brenda! I used to teach Latin and I don't think I could offer Mass in Latin! Of course I guess that is why actors are special people!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Friday, October 09, 2009 at 02:14:40 (MST)
Tonight I'm going to the Little Theater to see "Agnes of God." If you are familiar with the play or movie, you know it's a murder mystery in a convent. Our son-in-law Bill is the director and he asked me to help "Agnes" with the Latin Mass which she has to sing. By virtue of the fact that I am 72, I remembered all of the Latin mass and Gregorian chant and tape recorded it for her. She is a Baptist!! I can't believe that she was able to learn the Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei and a few other parts. I'm anxious to go tonight to see how she did it. I hope she is able to sing most of it off stage so that she can read it and not have to memorize it. If you are familiar with the movie, you know it's not going to be an easy play to watch. I'm also bringing two nuns to see it and I've warned them about the language, smoking, and the awful content they will experience. What a night!
Brenda
USA - Thursday, October 08, 2009 at 07:14:01 (MST)
It's tempting, but I can't do it.
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, October 06, 2009 at 07:50:15 (MST)
Brenda. I was not braging! Simply seeking information for comparison and by the way if you don't brag about your grandshildren who will?
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Monday, October 05, 2009 at 10:47:37 (MST)
Gerald, never a good idea to ask Grandparents to brag about their grandchildren.
Brenda
USA - Monday, October 05, 2009 at 08:26:17 (MST)
Brenda, we did go to Calgary Canada this summer. We are going on the KYDY cruise in Feb. The company has 900 booked on this trip. We went last year and had a blast. We are going to leave from New Orleans and then go to Key West and then to Freeport and Nassau in the Bahamas. Looking forward to it. I think we will probably go to Branson in the spring but that is still up in the air. We will see if we still have enough money in the money tree to make it. We have been shaking it pretty well lately. Take care.
Rickey
USA - Monday, October 05, 2009 at 06:47:08 (MST)
Good to have you back Rickey. I have four grandchildren from 7th thru 12th that have taken the ACT. Their grades were 18, 23, 25 & 29. The oldest two are in Zoology and Accounting. The 18 and 29 are still in grammer school and high school and deciding on what to major in. How does that compare to some of your own grandchildren and what was their majors?
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Sunday, October 04, 2009 at 12:52:50 (MST)
Good to hear from you, Rickey. How were all of the cruises this year? Seems like you and O.P. were going on different cruises. O.P. has put pictures on his website about their trip. Rickey, did you and Barbara go on one?
Brenda
USA - Saturday, October 03, 2009 at 12:54:04 (MST)
I'm back!!! No my computer hasn't been broken it just that I haven't had anything to say. Congrats Doris on all the great-grandchildren. I'v kept up with the operation and glad you are doing well. By the way, how is Charles? How were the test? Looks like the class web page has faded somewhat. I hear from Roland Trahan every once in a while. He asked me about the reunion. Did ya'll read Henertta's note about the stadium at Cathedral? Remember all the time and fun we had there? I spoke with Marshall yesterday and he is fine. He wanted to know why I don't write on the web page anymore. Well everyone stay healthy and I will keep writing on the page.
Rickey
USA - Saturday, October 03, 2009 at 02:28:22 (MST)
Doris, you are very lucky. I really do want to live long enough to see my children as grandparents. Can't see it happening, but who knows.
Brenda
USA - Monday, September 28, 2009 at 18:21:39 (MST)
We found out this week we are going to have yet ANOTHER addition to our family. Another GREAT grandchild. That will make 4 GREAT grandchildren. Gosh it is hard to believe my three oldest children are now grandparents.
Doris
USA - Sunday, September 27, 2009 at 19:07:06 (MST)
Cathedral-Carmel also asks for notes, cards or memories of Linden Bercegeay to be mailed to Cathedral-Carmel Foundation/Bercegeay Fund, 848 St. John Street, Lafayette, LA 70501
Henrietta
USA - Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 18:39:14 (MST)
Do you all remember Linden Bercegeay who played football for SLI while we were students? I remember Linden sitting next to me in library science class, as well as seeing him on the football field. I was asked, via an Alumni Assn. email, to spread the word:
"In grateful appreciation for Cathedral-Carmel Coach Linden Bercegeay's
many years of faithful and devoted service, the school will be dedicating
the football field in his honor as the "Linden J. Bercegeay Football
Field".We invite all of you to join us for a Dedication Ceremony and
Reception on Saturday, October 17, 2009 from 5:30p.m. - 7:30p.m. on the CCS
football field, with a reception immediately following in the cafeteria.Please
RSVP to foundation@cathedralcarmel.com or 337-235-5577. May God Bless you and
your family. Those who make a donation on behalf of Coach Bercegeay will be
recognized on the back of the Dedication Program. All checks payable
to:Cathedral - Carmel Foundation/ Bercegeay Fund,848 St. John Street,
Lafayette, LA 70501"
Henrietta
USA - Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 18:35:02 (MST)
Has any one used a Kindle ? How did you like it ?
J. J. Erny <judgeerny@ moblietel.com>
Larose, La USA - Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at 05:59:26 (MST)
Check out this site: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lSliucgygc
Brenda
USA - Monday, September 21, 2009 at 13:40:15 (MST)
Thank you, Henrietta, for doing this favor for our class! Time's flying and I guess we'd better start talking about a 55 year reunion again. We saw "The Informant" yesterday. It, "Julie and Julia" and "Harry Potter" were my favorite movies of the summer.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 06:29:37 (MST)
Thanks to all Mt. Carmel classmates who've already contributed to the Mt. Carmel High School, Class of 1955, memorial brick --we're 1/2 way there, and I hope to place the order within a few weeks. I learned that an anonymous donor has totally contributed to a memorial brick for the Cathedral-Carmel school ground, which will read "Cathedral High School, Class of 1955." It would also be nice for siblings who attended Cathedral and/or Mt. Carmel to get together and purchase a brick in their names. I think info about this is available at www.cathedralcarmel.com.
Henrietta
USA - Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 18:45:41 (MST)
How are you doing, Doris? Hope you have as good a result as your last operation.
Brenda
USA - Thursday, September 10, 2009 at 09:02:25 (MST)
Well, that sneaked up on me, Doris! I hope you do as well as you did for the other shoulder!
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, September 09, 2009 at 06:20:19 (MST)
Tomorrow's the day I get my second new shoulder. Please remember me in your prayers. Hopefully it will go as good as the last time.
Doris
USA - Tuesday, September 08, 2009 at 17:38:49 (MST)
Congratulations on another little Provost expectation, Doris. We spent a very quiet Labor Day today. We are in the process of doing a little work on our kitchen and I've been trying to nail down some decisions. Luckily our three daughters and sons-in-law are so helpful. What would we do without our adult children?
Brenda
USA - Monday, September 07, 2009 at 14:38:18 (MST)
Just found out on Tues. we will have another girl in the family. Jared and Tiffany are expecting a girl in Jan. That is a run on girls for us.
Doris
USA - Friday, September 04, 2009 at 07:32:18 (MST)
I know Brenda, we measured her hair... it is two inches long up on top.
Doris
USA - Monday, August 31, 2009 at 19:16:53 (MST)
Brenda, that is three great grand children. Clint my oldest grandchild has a little boy, Cole.
Doris
USA - Monday, August 31, 2009 at 19:15:23 (MST)
I can see why they named her Jolie. Beautiful girl Doris, congratulations. You seem to get good news in bunches.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Monday, August 31, 2009 at 08:45:00 (MST)
face
Brenda
USA - Monday, August 31, 2009 at 06:36:07 (MST)
Imagine having enough hair to put a barrette in it at birth!! She has a very pretty fact, Doris. Two great grandchildren--wow! Congratulations!
Brenda
USA - Sunday, August 30, 2009 at 19:35:06 (MST)
I know Sue, isn't she? She looks like an older baby. She just doesn't look like a new born. She was only about 10 or 11 hours old when I took that picture.
doris
USA - Sunday, August 30, 2009 at 14:57:33 (MST)
Doris, she is a beautiful baby!!!
Suzanne
USA - Sunday, August 30, 2009 at 10:05:01 (MST)
Yes, Gerald they did. Hopefully it will work. Hey guys, we have a new great grand baby. A little girl, Jolie Reese Provost, born today to Chuck's son Brandon and his little wife. She is beautiful. She has a head full of BLACK hair. The only one in our family with black hair. I think her great grand mother on her Mommies side was a Cherokee indian. I wonder if it will stay black like that.
Doris
USA - Thursday, August 27, 2009 at 17:15:33 (MST)
Have they tried burying the St. Joseph statue? It seems to work every time for us.
Gerald reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Tuesday, August 25, 2009 at 05:41:42 (MST)
Prayer Request: My grandaughter, Madelyn's mom, and her husband are building a new house and have been trying to sell their trailer, with no luck. Please pray that something will transpire that they can sell their trailer. Otherwise they won't be able to get the new house.
Doris
USA - Monday, August 24, 2009 at 19:20:25 (MST)
J.J. Over here in Tex. gulf shrimp are selling for $5.99 a lb. But we get farm raised EZ peel shrimp from HEB for $3.99 a lb. and they are big. We use to get them for $2.99 a lb. a couple of years ago. But this past year they go on sale for $3.99. We eat a lot of shrimp. I was glad to be able to keep shrimp in my freezer since we have been here. Even if it isn't gulf shrimp.
Doris
USA - Saturday, August 22, 2009 at 05:33:56 (MST)
We are able to purchase 10 15 count shrimp for $2 a pound from the boats. They are getting 75 cents a pound from the dock. This does not cover expenses. If this keeps up there were be no shrimp boats in two years.
J. J. Erny
USA - Saturday, August 22, 2009 at 03:43:08 (MST)
Check out this one!!!! http://thehumorzone.co.uk/Videos/elvis_celine.wmv
Brenda
USA - Monday, August 17, 2009 at 18:04:05 (MST)
Check out this site and enjoy this talented puppeteer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNJ02rxaNrs
Brenda
USA - Sunday, August 16, 2009 at 10:54:43 (MST)
Thanks, Doris. Their children are 15, 12, and 7. They do not want to move because they are so established in schools, and are near her parents. However, they may have to. They have a lovely old home that they completely restored and would never be able to get anything for it to buy one here. But again, they are so much better off than most because they have families who can help them.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, August 15, 2009 at 05:35:42 (MST)
The Cathedral-Carmel Foundation, planning to beautify the campus and raise funds for capital improvements, is having a Brick Paver Campaign, as featured in the current 2009 Eye of the Tiger newsletter. I thought if would be nice if our Mt. Carmel Class of 1955 would like to purchase a brick, priced at $100, to leave an enduring mark on the school ground. The Cathedral Class of 1955 might also be interested in doing this. If we can get 10 Mt. Carmel 1955 alumni to donate $10, I’ll work to get this done. If we get 20 Mt. Carmel alumni, the cost would only be $5 each. I’ll adjust the cost depending on how many donate. Please spread the word around to those who don't read this CathedralCarmel55's Guestbook. Would all Mt. Carmel 1955 classmates please let me know, at their earliest convenience, if they will donate to this cause? I can be reached at hbb929@cox.net, put a note on this website, or call me at 856-6201.
Henrietta Boriskie
USA - Friday, August 14, 2009 at 20:13:38 (MST)
Oh Brenda, I am so very sorry for Johnny and his wife. Will they be coming to Louisianna? How old are the children? I certainly will say some prayers.
Doris
USA - Friday, August 14, 2009 at 19:31:35 (MST)
Doris, that is the best news I've heard in weeks!!! Thank God for all of his blessings! Now, I feel that I can ask a few prayers for my family. Our son, Johnny, lost his job in California with the television station where he has worked for 15 years, with NO prospects of getting a comparable job any where over there. To make matters worse, Friday, his wife, who is a school librarian, was also let go as they are cutting back on every staff all over California. Thank God Johnny and Kim have us and her family, so many people have no one to turn to at this terrible time. I feel for their oldest two children who are so aware of their parents' pain in this nightmare.
Brenda
USA - Friday, August 14, 2009 at 11:27:31 (MST)
We just got the results of the biopsy and it does NOT show any signs of cancer.
Hip hip hurahhh ................... !!!!!!!!!!!! Many, Many, Many THANKS FOR THE PRAYERS...
Doris
USA - Friday, August 14, 2009 at 10:43:50 (MST)
The needle biopsy went smoothly today, no colapsed lung. Thank God and thank all of you for the prayers. Now we have to wait 3 to 5 days for the results. Everytime I come home from that hospital I am amazed with it. If it wouldn't be so far for me to drive I would volunteer over there.
Doris
USA - Tuesday, August 11, 2009 at 15:24:45 (MST)
Anxious to hear about Charles's results today. If anyone has heard, please let us know.
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, August 11, 2009 at 13:31:21 (MST)
Thanks, Gerald. I told someone who was going to Lafayette about them and I was surely hoping that they were still there. LeBlanc's doesn't advertise the price of gas (as I recall) and I nearly dropped dead when he gave me the total.
Brenda
USA - Monday, August 10, 2009 at 07:02:05 (MST)
They are both still full service especially Fournet's and still existing as far as I know.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Saturday, August 08, 2009 at 13:36:51 (MST)
Aren't there a few Full Service stations in Lafayette? Is LeBlanc's still on Johnston St., right down from Fatima and Tally Fournet's further down Johnston's?
Brenda
USA - Saturday, August 08, 2009 at 11:56:22 (MST)
PRAYER REQUEST: Please remember Charles in your prayers Tues. He is having the needle biopsy at M.D.Anderson.
Doris
USA - Wednesday, August 05, 2009 at 19:27:36 (MST)
I heard this morning on the news that a little 4 year old girl in New York was at a city park with her grandmother. She kicked off her shoes and ran onto that black tar covering and got such serious burns that she was in the burn unit for a week. Those are serious burns! I'll have to warn my grandchildren.
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, August 05, 2009 at 07:34:28 (MST)
I forgot about Jared. Well by the time he was born of course we had central air and things were already much different.
Doris
USA - Tuesday, August 04, 2009 at 15:36:14 (MST)
Brenda, when we were first married we didn't have air conditioning. In fact I had all four of my children without air conditioning at home. We didn't get a unit until Mitch was about 3 or 4. I really don't think it was this hot. Also our houses were built with big windows and the houses had drafts. Wind could come in from the front windows and go through the house to the back windows. My children played outside under big trees in our yard. It seemed like there was always a breeze. I would get my work done early and go sit with them.
Doris
USA - Tuesday, August 04, 2009 at 15:34:45 (MST)
I'm sure you could fry an egg on the sidewalk right now! Sammy doesn't want to be outside for over 5 minutes and he usually sits outside on and off all morning, but not now. What do people do without air conditioning?
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, August 04, 2009 at 14:57:13 (MST)
How nice for your family, J.J. Good for her!
Brenda
USA - Sunday, August 02, 2009 at 20:29:55 (MST)
Last year my baby sister Beth was elected president of the Louisiana Bar Association and this year she has been nominated to the federal bench.
Good news!
J. J. Erny <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
Larose, , La USA - Sunday, August 02, 2009 at 14:21:43 (MST)
We certainly will, Doris!
Brenda
USA - Friday, July 31, 2009 at 08:33:11 (MST)
Congratulations John and Brenda and Gerald and Pat. We will celebrate our 54th anniversary in Sept. By the way please keep Charles in your prayers. We saw the oncologist today and the spot they have been watching in his lung showed up much brighter this time. So they will do a needle biopsy next week. Depending on whether it is malignant or not we will then talk about treatments. If it isn't Dr. said he will once again send us on our merry way.
Doris
USA - Thursday, July 30, 2009 at 18:08:30 (MST)
Wow, Gerald! That's wonderful! Are you making plans? I read something recently that my mother wrote after their 50th wedding anniversary and she said that it was the happiest day of her life. We had a mass for them at Fatima and a reception afterward in their hall. All of her children and grandchildren did something in the mass and that, alone, was enough to thrill her. 50 years is quite an accomplishment and something to celebrate. I hope we get the chance.
Brenda
USA - Thursday, July 30, 2009 at 12:51:20 (MST)
Congratulations to John and Brenda. We have 6 Months to our 50th.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Thursday, July 30, 2009 at 11:14:38 (MST)
John and I celebrated our 48th wedding anniversary yesterday. We are catching up with some of you.
Brenda
USA - Thursday, July 30, 2009 at 06:47:15 (MST)
I really can't remember how I got started on the new CC website. I have spread the word in my family and hope that they look at it and maybe enroll. Hope it is just opening up the site and finding some way to register.
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, July 28, 2009 at 15:10:12 (MST)
grope, not group.
J. J. Erny
USA - Monday, July 27, 2009 at 03:27:46 (MST)
grope, not group.
J. J. Erny
USA - Monday, July 27, 2009 at 03:26:25 (MST)
Traveling is not as much fun as it used to be. Airline seats have gotten smaller and I have gotten bigger. I have a pacemaker and can no go through the screen machines at the airport. They hand search me. I am tired of having some burly guard group my groin and search my jockeys for a bomb.
J. J. Erny
USA - Sunday, July 26, 2009 at 11:08:25 (MST)
I just added two photos to the other CC website. One of them is a mystery to me and i am hoping that someone will be able to describe what was going on when that picture was taken. The only person I recognize in my brother, Stewart, an altar boy in the picture. It is a real mystery.
Brenda
USA - Sunday, July 26, 2009 at 10:16:20 (MST)
Alaska does sound wonderful at this time of the year. I wouldn't want to be there in the winter!! We are enjoying two baby parakeets that I got from my neighbor. We think they are sisters and are about 7 weeks old and just learning to sit on perches and eat by themselves. They are almost identical white birds, but it's easy to tell them apart. One is so much more active and tries to get the other one to get off the perch and do something. Sammy doesn't worry about them at all and so all is well.
Brenda
USA - Sunday, July 26, 2009 at 09:45:55 (MST)
Great, beautiful photos, O.P. Glad you all, and the Ernys, are enjoying the natural beauty of Alaska. Paul is talking about going back to Alaska again next summer, maybe lease a place in Anchorage and rent a car for Alaska's one highway.
Henrietta
USA - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 at 13:16:05 (MST)
That could be me also, Gerald. John has decided that he doesn't want to travel any more and wants to sleep in his own bed every night. I went alone to California at Easter this year and, if I want to see my sons, I'll have to keep traveling by myself.
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, July 21, 2009 at 04:48:35 (MST)
That would be ME, Gerald. I have a hard time getting to go to Lafayette......
Doris
USA - Monday, July 20, 2009 at 19:52:22 (MST)
Well I believe we have a tie as to "who is likely to travel" in our class. I wonder who is likely to challenge me on "who is likely to stay home". Ha!
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Monday, July 20, 2009 at 11:23:32 (MST)
I saw the butt end of brown bear as it went around a rock.
J. J. Erny
USA - Monday, July 20, 2009 at 10:20:39 (MST)
I saw the butt end of brown bear as it went around a rock.
J. J. Erny
USA - Monday, July 20, 2009 at 10:20:19 (MST)
Yes JJ we missed you by a month. Our weather has been great until this morning we are getting a light drizzle and clouds covering the mountain. Yesterday and the day before were really nice. You can see all my photos on http://opditch.com except the ones I'm going to upload this morning. The internet access is too crowded, all desktops are in use and lots of laptops like mine are using it. We want to know if you actually saw a bear? We only got a glimse of one in Denali from afar. Saw all the other animals good and up close, except the bear. I hope I get to see some on one of my excursions when I get on the Coral Princess tonight. We stop in Skagway, Juneau and Ketchikan.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Mt McKinley, AK USA - Monday, July 20, 2009 at 09:56:02 (MST)
O. P. We must have just missed you. Our carnival crew set up a trip for us. We were at Denali on the 27 th of June an then at Mount MacKenzie and we were there on the 29th. At Denali the weather was miserable. It snowed, sleeted and rained at the same time. I got ice crystals in my beard. Saw a lot of wild life.
J. J. Erny <judgerny@mobiletel.com>
USA - Monday, July 20, 2009 at 09:35:50 (MST)
O.P., you are right about the old site being much easier to understand. I have never figured it out because the words don't match or there are too many choices to make or something. Could you streamline it or is that the way it comes? The best thing about it is that a person can download their own pictures without having to bother you with them. I wish it would catch on with the other CC classes. I wrote to my sister and asked her if she would pass along the word to someone in the class of'57 who likes to fool with the Internet. She couldn't think of anyone. It would probably take one person in each class to get something started, even though our class is no example since we are clinging to the old site.
Brenda
USA - Sunday, July 19, 2009 at 06:47:01 (MST)
Yes we are in Alaska at the Denali National Park. We leave at 3:00 pm to go to the Mt. McKinley Wilderness Lodge a bit further south. I just had to make a comment here on the old site about the New Site. The best thing the New Site has done is get you all talking a lot on the old one. I guess the new site doesn't seem to have one easy to get to chat Room like the Guestbook. One thing that can be added to the new site is a Live Chat Room. When I have more time, I'll investigate that on the new site. Later.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Denali, AK USA - Saturday, July 18, 2009 at 13:14:08 (MST)
Now that we are reminiscing, my youngest sister, Judy, stopped by our house down the street from Our Lady of Fatima Church, and asked if she could see the changes that the new owners had made. They were very sweet about letting her come in and see it--quite a few changes. My mother would have loved to have added on to that house, but my daddy was never interested. I should be more attached to that house because we moved there during my last two years at SLI and I was married from that house, and both my parents were living there when they died, but it's my house on Buchannan St. that is in all of my dreams.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, July 18, 2009 at 06:36:29 (MST)
Doris, I think Gerald already answered your question about if people ever stop and visit the place where they were born! I'll give you another example. One day I was working in the yard and this strange car drives up! Low and behold it was the lady who was the original owner of the house I bought here in FL! She and her husband, who is now deceased, had the house built. It was very interesting listening to her remenise!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice , FL USA - Saturday, July 18, 2009 at 00:49:35 (MST)
My two boys were born at 306 May Circle on Eglin AFB in 1961 & 62. On one of our vacation trips to Florida we entered the Base and knocked on the door of the duplex where we lived. A real nice young lady invited us in and we toured the inside. My boys were a little embarrassed, I think, but we were not.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Friday, July 17, 2009 at 14:03:33 (MST)
You are right Brenda, it is nice. We kept my mother's house until just recently and my sister-in-law sold it just a few years ago. It was bought and repainted and fixed up so cute. I would love to just ring the doorbell one day and ask the occupants if I could just go in, since I was raised in that house. I wonder if people ever do that!!!!
Doris
USA - Friday, July 17, 2009 at 08:30:56 (MST)
It must be nice to drive by and see your old houses, etc. It kills me to see what has happened to my old neighborhood. I have to have a good memory to remember where everything was.
b
USA - Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 16:34:11 (MST)
Suzanne is right. Mr. and Mrs John Spreafico Daniel's Uncle lived at the corner of University and Souvenior Gate. His first wife died and he remarrried a lady who had never been married and they had no children. She sort of adopted Daniel and I and would love to through parties for the neighborhood.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 11:32:26 (MST)
Brenda, Gayle did live on University and her back yard and Daniel's back yard were connected on one corner. He lived on Souvenir Gate, one block from my house. Gerald, was that music coming from Dan's Uncles' house on the corner?
If you can remember, there was no house next to Daniels, it was a large lot full of camellia bushes and next to that was Mr. Main (he owened the Jefferson theater). My house was at the end of the next block. (Souvenir Gate and Myrtle Blvd).
Suzanne
USA - Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 07:06:10 (MST)
As I recall, it was Suzanne who lived near Daniel. Gayle lived on University.
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 06:44:04 (MST)
Outside at whose house, Gerald?
Doris
USA - Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 05:06:01 (MST)
Do you gals remember those parties that took place outside next door to where Gayle and Daniel lived on Souvenior Gate. Someone had a record player and it played Nat King Cole constantly. I'll never for get that.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Tuesday, July 14, 2009 at 15:14:15 (MST)
Good, Gerald. I'll have to talk to my son about that. I liked the station because they played a good mixture of oldies music. I heard songs I hadn't heard in a long time like "It's Magic", by Doris Day and some other Balads that I use to love, but they have slipped my mind right now.
Doris
USA - Tuesday, July 14, 2009 at 08:00:18 (MST)
Ops. I forgot to mention that it must be connected to AC power.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Monday, July 13, 2009 at 14:26:12 (MST)
Thanks Doris. I am listening to www.000AUDIO.com right now and will continue to do so from time to time. I have a speaker that is portable and wireless that we put in various parts of the house/shed outside and it also picks up the internet radio signal. Not expensive either. We purchased it for around $50.00 at the Acadiana Mall.
gGerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Monday, July 13, 2009 at 14:19:32 (MST)
Last night we went to baby sit with our little boys over here and Mitch had some music on his speakers outside by the pool that he said was JUST FOR US. It was a station with 50's music. Some good ole music. Rock and Roll and wonderful Balads. He had it streamed some kind of way from his computer to his outside speakers. It came from www.OOOAUDIO.com. You can listen to all kinds of music. Try it!!!!
Doris
USA - Sunday, July 12, 2009 at 14:09:39 (MST)
Yes Doris,mignon does mean cute. However, don't ask me to explain how it is that you can order a "filet mignon" and get a complete different meaning. Sometimes when a word is translated from French to English or vice versa, it looses its original meaning.
LARRY
USA - Sunday, July 12, 2009 at 07:56:17 (MST)
O.K. Larry, so what does "mignon" mean.
Doris
USA - Sunday, July 12, 2009 at 07:03:21 (MST)
Bad choice of a word. I should have said YOU LADIES. I apologize.
Larry
USA - Saturday, July 11, 2009 at 20:02:51 (MST)
I don't consider myself a french specialist but I did grow up speaking french at home with my parents. The only ones in our class that I can recall speaking french were Carroll and Clarence Doucet,Wilbur Richard and Roland Trahan. You gals should give yourselves some credit for knowing some french. Y'all come up with the words or expressions. Doris,the french song "ALONS A LAFAYETTE" talks about 'CANAILLE COMEAUX. The expression is "chere te bebe".
Larry
USA - Saturday, July 11, 2009 at 17:07:34 (MST)
Yes, Brenda, vagually do I remember it. But I don't remember the words.
Doris
USA - Saturday, July 11, 2009 at 14:05:26 (MST)
It occurred to me that we used to sing Cajun songs on the playground. If anyone had asked me until recently if I knew any Cajun songs, I would had said, "no." However, we used to sing, "Vachon suchet tiket" (don't know how to spell it) and "Sara tu passe territa rita ra..." I'm sure,like a child praying the "Our Father," I have used words that were never in the songs, but that's what they sounded like to me. We would sit in a circle and pass a shoe around and when we stopped singing, the one holding the shoe was out (or something like that)? Doris, do you remember that?
Brenda
USA - Saturday, July 11, 2009 at 13:59:03 (MST)
Doris doesn't "mignon" or however you spell it, mean 'Cute?" Let's see what Larry says?
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice , FL USA - Saturday, July 11, 2009 at 13:14:54 (MST)
You know when Chuck and Roxanne lived in Nova Scotia. Roxanne said she never felt more at home any other place in the world. There were Landry's and Boudreaux's and Guilbeau's and when we would go to Port Royal or Church Point, Nova Scotia and they were speaking their Acadian French it sounded so much like our Cajun French. It really was awesome to go to the actuall place where our ancesters migrated from.
Doris
USA - Saturday, July 11, 2009 at 12:28:46 (MST)
Yes, Brenda, I have so many memories of growing up "cajun". My mother didn't speak too much french, but she would use little comments once in a while. Larry, since you are the french specialist, just what does mignon (pronounced meyawn) mean. I think it may mean small and dainty or precious. Mother use to say a child or something was " Sa sey mignon". About Canaille. My mother in law use to call our second son "Canaille Comeaux". He was always getting into trouble. And of course a baby was "Sha te bebe".
Doris
USA - Saturday, July 11, 2009 at 12:24:49 (MST)
I remember those "popularity contests". I believe the brothers stopped them in our senior year?
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Saturday, July 11, 2009 at 07:24:45 (MST)
I think Dale Gaudet was selected as the Hardest Worker when he graduated from Cathedral. Yesterday I was cleaning out some old stuff and, of course, I sat down and read every letter, picture, and papers. I came upon a tiny scrap of paper which had the names of those who were named Most Comical, Best Dressed, Most Likely to Succeed, etc. in Dale's class. The Best Dancer was Joe Barrilleaux and the Most Ambitious was Pat Roy.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, July 11, 2009 at 04:51:09 (MST)
Hey everybody today is Dale Gaudet's birthday. Let all wish him a Happy Birthday.
Rickey
USA - Friday, July 10, 2009 at 14:01:53 (MST)
When we were at the UL reunion, John and I went on the tour to the Acadian Village. We watched a film of the early Acadians and I bought it afterward to show my children and grandchildren. I am waiting for an opportunity that they can't get out of!!! None of them live near Cajuns and the only personal information about them comes from me. As my mother was not Cajun, I didn't get that much information either. It was just that I lived in a Cajun culture and got a lot of it through osmosis. You might not realize how nice it is to have raised your children in that culture, that is those of you in or near Lafayette.
I guess J.J. lives in a Cajun culture also. O.P. and Shirley, did you carry over any Cajun culture in your family? Marshall, you are really out of the culture, but your cooking is Cajun. I tell my children that I am (rodaying) when I visit them on weekends. I know that is not the correct spelling, but that's what it sounds like.
Brenda
USA - Friday, July 10, 2009 at 11:41:44 (MST)
Suzanne, that is the way it is spelled and I can believe that you were canaille when you were little.
Brenda
USA - Friday, July 10, 2009 at 11:32:03 (MST)
Almost every time my Grandmother referred to me it was Canaille. GO FIGURE! Anyway that is how I thought it was spelled.
Suzanne
USA - Friday, July 10, 2009 at 08:19:13 (MST)
Kani. All are right. I depends upon how you use it.
J. J. Erny <judgernymobiletel.com>
Larose, , La USA - Thursday, July 09, 2009 at 17:46:44 (MST)
Ops, only two l's not three.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Thursday, July 09, 2009 at 13:58:24 (MST)
In '03 Pat gave me Cajun Self-Taught dictionary by Rev. Msgr. Jules O. Daigle M.A., S.T.L. (whatever that means) and it describes Canaillle pronounced Kan-a-ee as shrewd. That's my two cents.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Thursday, July 09, 2009 at 13:56:21 (MST)
My Granddaughter, Lauren, looked it up in the Cajun French-English dictionary LSU has posted on its website. Their entry is as follows:*canaille (adj.) [KAH NAHY] **1. mischievous [of children]. 2. sneaky, wily. [This word does not have the strong pejorative connotation it has in standard French.] Here is that dictionary should you ever want to look up another word: http://appl003.lsu.edu/artsci/frenchweb.nsf/$content/Cajun+French+Glossary?OpenDocument
Brenda
USA - Thursday, July 09, 2009 at 08:20:06 (MST)
I'm sure you are right, Larry. I can't get used to the double "ll" spelling in French words.
Brenda
USA - Thursday, July 09, 2009 at 06:33:52 (MST)
The expression as I knew it meant that someone was mischievous in a good way(a prankster).
The only word that I could find that comes close phonetically is "CANAILLE" which in French means rabble,riffraff or scoundrel.However,maybe someone can come up with a better explanation.
Larry
USA - Wednesday, July 08, 2009 at 21:03:16 (MST)
That's probably a question for Carrol Doucet, Brenda. Phoniclly I think it is pronounced Ka nai?
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Wednesday, July 08, 2009 at 17:31:16 (MST)
Does anyone know the Cajun expression "Cannii? or something like that which is what you would say to describe a really cute, kind of spoiled child? Larry, you've helped me in the past. Could tell me how it's spelled and what it means? Thanks!
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, July 08, 2009 at 13:25:39 (MST)
If the class is looking for something other than the usual dinner-dance for our 55th 1955 high school reunion, ideas might be: (1) Brenda's idea of an overnight slumber party at T’Frere’s, and then getting together with the guys for lunch the next day; (2) Rickey’s idea of a trip to Branson – what about chartering a bus from Lafayette?; (3) Working as a volunteer group a couple of days for Habitat for Humanity in New Orleans, and going out to dinner in the evenings in the French Quarters. My friends were even housed at Loyola University while volunteering;(3) Group attending a good concert together at a nearby casino, then spending a couple days there, having a dinner/dance one evening;(4) A dinner-dance party with a 1955 theme (music, decor, dance contest, etc.); or (5) Our Points of View subdivision has a pool, tennis court, volleyball court, some picnic tables & benches, grassy areas and a grill that can be reserved – a play day for the Carmel girls and/or Cathedral guys. I'm sure you all may have other good ideas for our reunion that the Committee can work on and maybe poll classmates.
Henrietta
USA - Sunday, July 05, 2009 at 15:34:19 (MST)
Ok, I'll wait for a contact from the Mount Carmel side to start the planning. Thanks Brenda.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Sunday, July 05, 2009 at 08:59:10 (MST)
Gerald, Henrietta said that she would attend any planning sessions and Patsy said that she would contact girls after she had some information. If I have a vote, I will vote for a night at T'frere's and lunch the next day with the guys and their wives.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, July 04, 2009 at 10:55:14 (MST)
Rickey, the Mt. Carmel class of '55 is talking about going to T'frere's for an overnight slumber party and then, possibly, getting together with the guys for lunch the next day. Maugie and Pat Pastor own T'frere's and we had a great time there some years ago.
Brenda
USA - Friday, July 03, 2009 at 07:04:27 (MST)
Hey gang I was just wondering if the class would like to do something together,
We could plan something for our 55 year celebration. Would the class be insterested in going somewhere together? We could go on a cruise or maybe to Branson, Mo. Everybody has been asking if we are going to do anything and maybe we could do something like that. Let me know and if ya'll do we can plan something next year. Give me time to make the arrangements.
Rickey <rickeyg36@cox.net>
USA - Friday, July 03, 2009 at 04:31:01 (MST)
Brenda, and all, go to the main page: http://cathedralcarmel.ning.com
Then click on my Forum item "Cathedral/Carmel '55 Class Reunion in 2010?" then when you get to that page, scrool down and type your message response in the box provided, then scrool down more and click the "Add Reply" button.
That's it in a nutshell.
O. P. Ditch
USA - Wednesday, July 01, 2009 at 08:13:05 (MST)
Brenda, you can do it. go to the site and click on my Forum about the 2010 reunion. Surely you can do that.
O. P. Ditch <opditch>
Woodbridge, VA USA - Wednesday, July 01, 2009 at 08:08:42 (MST)
Judy Landry Caswell is the name I couldn't remember. O.P., I'm not sure exactly how to use the other site. I left a comment one day, but I can't find how to do it again.
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 11:23:12 (MST)
O.P., I know Judy Landry ? who was at the UL reunion reads this website. She might like to join. How about it, Judy?
Brenda
USA - Monday, June 29, 2009 at 05:45:08 (MST)
Henrietta,
Can you pass the word on to any of your contact at the current Cathedral/Mt.Carmel school? Maybe they could pass the word in their newsletter?
http://cathedralcarmel.ning.com
Any alumni (any class) are welcome to join us.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Woodbridge, VA USA - Monday, June 29, 2009 at 03:19:11 (MST)
Doris, it's buff colored. They brought it over yesterday and it was just like a stuffed toy with the cutest face. She said it's mother looked just like my old cocker, Sophie. They have an enormous male dog already and I'm curious to know how that will work. One bite ought to do it!
Brenda
USA - Sunday, June 28, 2009 at 06:00:34 (MST)
Brenda, what color is Margaret's cock-a-poo? I just love that breed. I love Cheree. But I do miss Buster. He was so cute. O.P. our new webpage is like having our own Facebook. Right? I guess we need to know the e-mail address of someone other than in our class in order to invite them to join. Which is too bad, because I would like to get in touch with Winnie Monteleon Duhe and Roselyn Berger Harry, but I don't know their e-mail addresses.
Doris
USA - Saturday, June 27, 2009 at 19:36:37 (MST)
OOOOOOpPPPs I forgot to give you the URL/address of the site:
http://cathedralcarmel.ning.com
O. P. Ditch
USA - Saturday, June 27, 2009 at 14:47:37 (MST)
Ok, here we go with a new (TRIAL) website for CathedralCarmel (ALL YEARS). Lets see if you all can figure out how to use it. You can upload your own photos, and even have your own "blog". Huh, what's that huh? Once you join, you have your own page on the site and you can change it according to the limitation that the "ning" people have built into the site. The first thing you will have to promise me is that you will upload a "profile photo" of yourself (or yourself and your spouse). Or you spouse can have their own page. Just mention on your page who your spouse is and what class year they were in. You can also upload videos, you can see other persons pages, and their are "GROUPS" TO BE set up for each Class. We might also have some other kind of groups, like maybe alterboys/altergirls, or for the athletic sports. We'll go slow on that. I will still leave this site up and decide at a later date if I will keep it up. Don't hesitate to call me or email me or Skype me, or however you can catch me for help.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Woodbridge, VA USA - Saturday, June 27, 2009 at 14:46:18 (MST)
I'm going to have a new grand dog tomorrow. Daughter Margaret is driving to Lafayette to pick up a Cock-a-poo from a place called Glasscocks. I think I'm going to be doing a lot of dog sitting until it can stay by itself when they go to work.
Brenda
USA - Friday, June 26, 2009 at 16:07:47 (MST)
What a night! LSU winning such a great game! We were watching the game and looking for Max and Bill in the stands. Then, we had to check to see if my niece Sarah Golden was on "You've Got Talent" or whatever that's called She wasn't. Then Kathleen was sending messages about her son, Matt, playing in a World Championship tournament for 11 year olds in Florida. She wrote: "We won another game today and they are playing really well. Matt pitched the entire game. We won 5-2. I think he gave up one hit and one walk. Unfortunately, he didn't hit well today and that really got him mad. He and Michael are going to a batting cage in the morning to try to work on his swing." Is that too much pressure for an 11 year old?
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 20:38:57 (MST)
Yea LSU!!! And Mahtook from STM in Lafayette hit in the winning run!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 20:04:07 (MST)
Come to think of it, you're right Brenda. He did have the build of a jockey. I didn't know him persoanlly, but many people who did know him feel, like you, that he should be canonized!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 05:30:39 (MST)
Bishop Ott looked like a jockey. I do know that he had a rowing machine in his apartment for exercise. I think that he should be canonized!
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 05:23:31 (MST)
Thanks Brenda! I'm just curious! These athletic 'gifts' usually run in families. As far as I know, Bishop Ott did not have an 'athletic bone' in his body!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice , FL USA - Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 04:58:13 (MST)
WHAT A GAME! LSU is just terrific, at least this team is. Bishop Ott was related to Mel Ott and I haven't heard about this Ott, but I'll find out.
Brenda
USA - Monday, June 22, 2009 at 21:01:00 (MST)
LSU WILLED the win tonight! Is Matty Ott related to Bishop Ott? I think the bishop was related to Mel OTT the Major League player...anybody know?
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Monday, June 22, 2009 at 20:24:16 (MST)
Brenda, I didn't realize you had a grandson named Matt too. I think just about everyone has a grandson named Matthew or Matt. My Matt is going to art classes this summer and is loving it.
Doris
USA - Monday, June 22, 2009 at 17:55:36 (MST)
Our grandson, Matt, is in Panama City beach for a world series tournament. They won both games today making them the 1st or 2nd seed. They won the first game 16-1 and the second 4-0. Matt is pitching and went 2 for 5 today with several RBI's. He closed the first game with no runs given up. Between Florida and Omaha, we are really into baseball this week.
Brenda
USA - Monday, June 22, 2009 at 16:42:09 (MST)
Quote from a seven year old. “Fathers day is just like mothers day except that it costs a lot less money”
J.J. Erny <judgeerny@ mobiletel.com>
USA - Monday, June 22, 2009 at 05:09:54 (MST)
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY TO ALL YOU GUYS OUT THERE! I hope you are enjoying a wonderful day.
Brenda
USA - Sunday, June 21, 2009 at 13:11:50 (MST)
The traffic is so bad here in Baton Rouge that yesterday, it took me 40 minutes to go about 5 miles at 10 a.m.! Then, in the afternoon, when I was assured that the LSU game would be keeping everyone at home and off the road, I attempted to drive downtown to pick up my blind friend and again, it took me one hour to get him home and then, me home!!! Speaking of the LSU games, my grandson, Max, and his dad, Bill, have been in Omaha for all of CWS because Bill is from Omaha and they are staying with his family. Max is wearing a big yellow wig under his LSU cap. We can usually see him on ESPN because the camera zooms in on him. In one local game, a 3rd base coach tossed up a foul ball to him and my son, Johnny, was able to see him, and the rest of the family from his home in California.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, June 20, 2009 at 06:41:30 (MST)
J.J. the State Highway Department now known as the DOT is in the 20th year of their 5 year Highway Improvement program. The shortest distance between two points in this state is under construction. Lots of luck with the toll road.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Friday, June 19, 2009 at 12:38:25 (MST)
Good news the state had placed a toll bridge on the road to Grand Isle. Starts, in theory, on the first on July.
J. J.
USA - Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 17:22:17 (MST)
I forgot to mention that it was being filmed in New Orleans or there abouts. Marshall, Bill was an actor in New York, but was what you would call a starving actor up there. When they moved down here after 9/11, his new agent started getting him many jobs and commercials. Then Katrina happened and his agent moved to Shreveport and he had to drive up there for auditions. That was not good. Then, his agent moved back to New Orleans and the jobs picked up. Bill is in a few movies that are out now. They are always small parts that can easily wind up on the cutting room floor, but he gets paid never-the-less. He has been a big success in the Baton Rouge Little Theater, starring in three shows and winning Best Actor for them. His last was Sir Thomas More in "A Man for all Seasons." He's also an excellent writer and has published articles. He coaches his son's football team and voluntarily built a baseball field at his school. Best of all, he is a WONDERFUL husband and father and a terrific son-in-law.
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 08:18:06 (MST)
Sorry I spelled the last name wrong. It is Littell.
Doris
USA - Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 08:17:54 (MST)
Just wanted to let everyone know Jeanette's sister, Yvonne (Poulette) Litelle died this past week-end. The funeral is in Opelousas.
Doris
USA - Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 08:14:32 (MST)
Part of Jonah Hex is being made, or has been made, at old Fort Pike in Eastern New Orleans.
J. J. Erny <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
Larose, La USA - Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 01:44:45 (MST)
Good on your son-in-law Brenda. Didn't know he was an actor. Hey what do you guys think of them Tigers?
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Monday, June 15, 2009 at 18:26:42 (MST)
Is it being filmed in Baton Rouge?
Doris
USA - Monday, June 15, 2009 at 17:19:40 (MST)
Our son-in-law just filmed a scene in a new movie called, "Jonah Hex" starring John Malcovich and Josh Brolin. Bill plays a Union commander that Josh Brolin's character surrenders to. Bill has mutton chop sideburns and looks awful. At least they won't be able to chop his scene because it's necessary to the story.
Brenda
USA - Monday, June 15, 2009 at 13:55:18 (MST)
Sorry about my last message. I need to refrain from typing when I am full of juice from the mal a dent.
J. J. <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
USA - Saturday, June 13, 2009 at 04:52:01 (MST)
Forgot to tell you all that my niece, Sarah Golden, (Judy's daughter) is going to be on America's Got Talent, possibly as early as June 23. It has already been filmed, but it might take three shows to show all of them. She has been singing around Houston for a few years and has two c.d.'s. She's in her 20's.
Brenda
USA - Friday, June 12, 2009 at 20:12:43 (MST)
If any of you Mt. Carmel girls are reading this website and don't want to write on it, please write to me at my e-mail address above. Henrietta and I would like to hear from any of you about whether or not you are interested in doing something for our 55th anniversary. It doesn't mean that you will be asked to do anything, we just want to know your interest level. I'd love to hear from you. Thanks for writing.
Brenda <jatkin19321@cox.net>
USA - Friday, June 12, 2009 at 19:56:33 (MST)
Well, my children and tewir famillies are off to Bimini this tomorrow morning. They are bringing their boats.
It was a bad day today. I went to the dentist to see about a broken tooth. I left with a treatment plan with a price tag just about the same as the first house that Lita and I owned.
Yesterday Lita and I took our sixth grade grand daughter on a shopping trip to the mall. It was a reward for doing well with the program she has with Duke. After six hours I was defeated. I went to the car, turned on the ac and went to sleep. I woke up two hours latter and watched them fill the trunk and back seat with packages. There was only room on back seat to a thin sixth grader.
Today she tells me that she had been picked for a leadership conference in D.C. and is going for a week, just after the get back from Bimini. My thought was that she can lead, she goes to tha mall an is a leader in moving the dollars from my pocket to the pockets of the merchants in the mall. Oh well grand daughters are expensive and I was fun.
J. J. Erny <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
Larose, La USA - Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 19:35:23 (MST)
Some of us are talking about it. Will let you know when someone steps up to a leadership position.
Brenda
USA - Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 15:25:49 (MST)
JJ, I vote Yes, but someone in Lafayette has to take charge and make it happen.
We are not getting any younger.....
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Woodbridge, VA USA - Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 02:39:05 (MST)
It was a simple attempt to return to you your youth. Don’t worry Brenda I did not notice it either. None the less, are we going to do something next year?
J. J. Erny <judgeerny@ mobiletel.com>
Larose, La USA - Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 06:14:15 (MST)
I live in a fog!! I never noticed that, Gerald.
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, June 09, 2009 at 15:45:02 (MST)
J.J. you have made us all 10 years younger. In 2010 we will have our 55th anniversary for the class of '55.
You always were the most optimistic person in our class. Keep it up.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Tuesday, June 09, 2009 at 07:50:54 (MST)
It will be 45 years in 2010. Are we going to do something?
J. J. Erny <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
Larose, La USA - Monday, June 08, 2009 at 16:26:57 (MST)
I can't believe what a small world it is. The Harris' lived in the
Woodlands before they moved to Brazil. I remember Charlie Deballion well. I worked at the Clerk's office when I was first married and he was in there ALL the time. Anne was probably just a little tyke then. I can still see the house they lived in. Sue sorry to hear they were related to your family as it is such a tragic thing for any family to go through.
Doris
USA - Thursday, June 04, 2009 at 11:11:10 (MST)
My sympathies, Suzanne. I often play bridge with Charlie Debaillon and his present wife Melba Keller Axtell Debaillon, at the Petroleum Club and Rose House. He is such a gentleman, and I used to babysit for Melba's kids when we lived in Holden Heights during the 1950's. Rosella Granados Railbolt's sister Lolita also plays bridge with us. Since the Debaillons don't have email, I'd recently mailed him some lawyer jokes. My prayers go out to them.
Henrietta
USA - Thursday, June 04, 2009 at 09:26:58 (MST)
My sympathies Suzanne! I didn't know Anne Harris was so close to all of us...such a small world! Certainly most of us remember Charlie Deballion if we don't remember Anne. Will offer my mass this morning for the peaceful repose of the soul of Anne and her husband.
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Thursday, June 04, 2009 at 04:36:37 (MST)
I read about that couple and wondered if you all knew them. That Debaillon name sounds familiar as the family who lived next door to Madeline. I'm so sorry to hear about that tragedy, Suzanne. I will pray for them and their family.
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, June 03, 2009 at 13:29:17 (MST)
Sad news for our family. The young woman who was a passenger in the Air France crash was my cousin, Anne Debaillon Harris. Her mother was Phyllis Durand Debaillon. I'm sure that some of yall knew her family. Her dad is Charlie Debaillon. They lived next door to Madeline Krausse on Convent St.
Suzanne
USA - Wednesday, June 03, 2009 at 06:48:41 (MST)
Isn't it wonderful to have such caring children. I am sure she gets it from her parents.
Doris
USA - Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 05:33:48 (MST)
A nice thing happened to us yesterday. Our daughter, Kathleen, organized most of the local children and grandchildren to come work in our front yard. She ordered grass sod and they cleared the weeds and whatever and put down top soil and grass. It was a hot job, but the results are great!
Brenda
USA - Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 05:02:58 (MST)
Went by the senior citizens center. All of the old guys waived and said hello. Young man asked me who they were and told him that they were the future. He still does not understand.
J. J. Erny
Larose, La USA - Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 13:10:31 (MST)
Hay, Marshall I'm still alive. We are doing great. I lost your e-mail address so I had to answer you this way. I have been busy with the travel company I work for. I have booked a lot of cruises. I'll let you know about them later. So long for now.
Rickey
USA - Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 05:48:53 (MST)
I don't think Pat was at USL at that time. Tommy was though. I know Pat went back to college after her children were born, because when Bill, her youngest, was in pre-school, she was in college then. She was in education, she was a teacher at Montgomery Elementary.
Doris
USA - Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 04:55:58 (MST)
Good to hear from you, J.J. Doris, I tried to look up Pat Rogers in the 1958 SLI yearbook, but she wasn't listed. There was a Gloria Rogers who majored in secretarial science or something like that. There was also no picture of Coon Piece of Cut Off whom some of the guys were asking about at the UL Reunion. I might have a picture of him in my attic with some old stuff. I ran into Rickey at the movie theater the other day. Maybe he could give us a review of "Star Trek" and "Angels and Demons" which I think he saw.
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, May 26, 2009 at 07:02:10 (MST)
OK, where is Rickey hiding? Come out where ever you are.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Woodbridge, va USA - Tuesday, May 26, 2009 at 02:46:35 (MST)
"What is not possible is no to chose" Jean-Paul Sartre
j. J. Ern <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
Larose, La USA - Monday, May 25, 2009 at 17:43:09 (MST)
I too want to thank all of the veterans reading this.
Doris
USA - Saturday, May 23, 2009 at 20:01:42 (MST)
On this Memorial Day Weekend, I'd like to personally thank all of you Veterans who might be reading this website. I only know of Harvey, O.P., Gerald, Pete, and Marshall. I know there are more of you, but I don't know who. We owe all of you a tremendous debt of gratitude and are grateful that you made it home alive and were able to live productive lives.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, May 23, 2009 at 17:02:46 (MST)
Must be just one year. She said she finished Lafayette High in '54.
Doris
USA - Saturday, May 23, 2009 at 05:40:46 (MST)
No, Doris. How much older than we are is she?
Brenda
USA - Friday, May 22, 2009 at 18:42:51 (MST)
Brenda, do you remember Pat Rogers? I think she use to go by Patsy Rogers.
Doris
USA - Friday, May 22, 2009 at 10:10:56 (MST)
Tommy Rogers married Nell Grand who also graduated from Lafayette High in '55 and SLI in '59.
Brenda
USA - Friday, May 22, 2009 at 09:23:30 (MST)
Yep, that is the same Tommy Rogers, because Pat said he had gone to the SLI reunion.
Doris
USA - Friday, May 22, 2009 at 06:08:14 (MST)
Doris, I know Tommy Rogers, he was at the SLI Reunion with us this past weekend. He had lived next door to us on Calder Street. I'm trying to remember Pat Rogers Higgins, but her name and face are not coming back to me.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Woodbridge, VA USA - Friday, May 22, 2009 at 03:24:44 (MST)
O.P. do you remember Pat Higgins? I am not sure but I think her maiden name was Rogers. I think she had a brother named Tommy. She said she was a friend of your sister Pat and lived on Calder St.She remembered you. Anyway I go to the YMCA for water aerobics and she does too. Today we had a luncheon and her and I got together and reacquainted. It was amazing. Not only do I remember her from high school days, but our children went to school together at Lafayette High and when I was teaching pre-school in Lafayette I taught her youngest son. Gosh it really is a small world to think after so many years we would run into each other! And even more amazing, we would remember each other. Of course we had to tell each other our names, but right when she said her name I remembered.
Doris
USA - Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 20:20:21 (MST)
O.P., the Little Lace Colonel for 1959 was Patricia Lormand.
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 12:01:21 (MST)
Thanks for taking and posting the videos of the festivities for the 50th anniversary at the UL graduation O.P. I attended college for two years at St. Mary's in KY, then 6 years at Notre Dame in New Orleans, so I missed all those college years in Lafayette. I did attend summer sessions at UL, so it was interesting to see how much the university has grown. It is obvious that all had a great time.
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 03:48:57 (MST)
I also forgot to mention that Judy Landry, who graduated from Mt. Carmel in 1956, graduated from S.L.I. in 1959 with us. She also attended the graduation this weekend. I believe that she is very smart and she also reads this web site. By the way, Sammy is home and seems to be fine. Thanks, those who wrote to me at home.
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 19:20:57 (MST)
Here are links to the Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMe-U9G-VdY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWpZp7Cwcpc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzCOv2tYB08
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
USA - Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 07:33:54 (MST)
I omitted Cile and Ena Claire's names as I didn't notice their graduation pictures in my Yearbook, but they were there. John and I enjoyed the 50th events and are impressed with Dan Hare and Shane Johnson from the UL Alumni office who were wonderful and made everything so nice for us. We'd also like to thank O.P., Gerald, and Harvey and their wives: Shirley, Pat and Faye for acting as hosts and hostesses for us at the events we attended. Yesterday was not a good day for me, however, I had to rush my little Sammy to the Vets because he was so sick. The Vet thinks that he got into poison, but we don't know how he could have. When I called to see how he was doing the other vet read out of his chart that he had gotten into poison and that it was neurological and systemic and that he was on I.V.'s, but that he should recover. I have to wait until 10:30 today to call again, but I hope I will be able to go get him and bring him home after that.
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 06:45:28 (MST)
Here are the photos from the "Sock Hop", not many of the Grads dressed Sockhopish for the event.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/opditch/sets/72157618160029335/
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
USA - Saturday, May 16, 2009 at 06:05:42 (MST)
OK, here are the first photos from the ULL/SLI 50th Reunion for Class of '59:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/opditch/sets/72157618117198599/
This was from Friday's Tour of the Campus.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
USA - Saturday, May 16, 2009 at 06:00:17 (MST)
I finally hauled out my old SLI yearbook and saw who graduated in 1959. They were: Janet, Rosemary, Minette, Del Rita, Gayle, Barbara, Rosella, and me. At least, those are the ones who went and took their pictures.
Brenda
USA - Thursday, May 14, 2009 at 11:27:03 (MST)
Henrietta, Minette, Cile, Mary Anthony, did any of you graduate in 1959 from SLI?
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 13:06:50 (MST)
No, O.P. As I recall, I was just in a sorority and the Newman Club.
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 13:06:06 (MST)
For the ULL Reunion,Shirley & I are going to everything except the city tour on Saturday.
Benda, were you one of the Flight girls for the ROTC? I forget what they called them. The head one was little lace colonel I think.
We are having an ROTC luncheon on Saturday, but we forgot to look up the girls.
O. P. <opditch@gmail.com>
USA - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 03:21:28 (MST)
Yes I remember those days. Our motto was"if you can't lick it (hair), stick it". Unfortunately we will not be going to the sock hop. Maybe O.P. and Shirley will. We will be there for the welcome get together at the Hilton Thursday night at 5:30. Bill Roza will be playing his great music as he did for our high school class reunion. Hope to see you guys there Brenda.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 08:59:22 (MST)
Well, I remember going to a "Sock Hop" and I wore rolled up blue jeans with a white shirt hanging out, collar up, and a scarf tied around my neck. Hair up in a pony tail socks and loafers. But at the "Hop" we checked our shoes at the door, thus came the name "Sock Hop". I remember going to one at the Lafayette High gym. Can't remember who I went with. Now, don't ask me what the boys wore. Ask them!!!
Doris
USA - Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 04:54:47 (MST)
Checked on the Internet and found this advice: "Nice girls in the 50s wore long skirts adorned with a poodle, a sweater, bobby socks and saddle shoes with their hair pulled back in a ponytail with a ribbon. See Step Three for the clothes your date should choose. Boys wear blue jeans low on your hips, a white t-shirt either with your pack of cigarettes rolled in the sleeve or with a black leather jacket over it. Style your hair in a DA with lots of pomade and some dark shades to complete the greaser sock hop look." We won't be dressed like this, I'm afraid.
Brenda
USA - Monday, May 11, 2009 at 15:02:47 (MST)
Who exactly is going to the SLI reunion? I made reservations at the Hilton for the three days, but I lost my brochure and don't know if you have to register for the events before. By the way, what did we wear to sock hops? Bluejeans? tennis shoes?
Brenda
USA - Monday, May 11, 2009 at 14:58:25 (MST)
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ALL YOU MOTHERS! ENJOY YOUR DAY.
O. P. Ditch
USA - Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 12:03:57 (MST)
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY FROM ME TOO!!!!!!!! wE ALL NEED TO CELEBRATE.
Suzanne
USA - Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 07:21:39 (MST)
I also want to wish all you Mom's out there a HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY.
Doris
USA - Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 06:27:18 (MST)
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL OF YOU! I hope you have a glorious day tomorrow.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, May 09, 2009 at 17:49:44 (MST)
Good to hear that everyone is doing fine. We are preparing a little get-together for our ROTC class during the 50th S.L.I. class reunion next weekend. Hope to see some of you girls there.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Friday, May 08, 2009 at 07:45:56 (MST)
Eleven, so I have caught up with you. But I do have 2 great grandchildren and one on the way.
Doris
USA - Friday, May 08, 2009 at 07:22:35 (MST)
How many grandchildren does that make, Doris?
Brenda
USA - Friday, May 08, 2009 at 06:19:09 (MST)
Glad to hear you eye surgery went well, Marshall. I went to my Dr. this afternoon and he said everything is doing just fine, I can quit my therapy and start doing my water aerobibcs again. Still can't push anything with that right arm. But I'm doing just fine. God is indeed good. Guess what Jared gave me a special Mother's Day gift. He gave me the news that he will be a Daddy sometimes around Christmas. Hope everything goes well this time.
Doris
USA - Thursday, May 07, 2009 at 18:18:01 (MST)
No Brenda, I did not use the 'Multi Focal' lens. My doctor told me that with the eye 'conditon' I had, it was a waste of money...he said I would see just as well without glasses with one eye focused for distance and the other for close in. In my 'pre-op' visit I went in 'loaded for bear' with all the info from the computer!!! So he saved me $5,000.00!!! So far I am happy! Don't know if I mentioned, but I removed the left lens from my glasses after surgery, and I can see well without correction in the left eye...of course I have to wait a couple of days for the 'drops' that they use for surgery to clear out. Thanks for all the prayers.
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, LA USA - Thursday, May 07, 2009 at 07:17:34 (MST)
Marshall, I remembered that you were going to have the surgery last night. I hope you are happy with the results. Did you get Restore lens? (I think that is the name of my lens.)
Brenda
USA - Thursday, May 07, 2009 at 06:35:03 (MST)
Just had cataracts removed from my left eye...so far no unbearable pain. Thanks for all your prayers. Second eye will be one on the 14th.
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Wednesday, May 06, 2009 at 15:33:25 (MST)
Just received the following email from Cathedral-Carmel Alumni, and thought some of you might need to know that they've canceled their event scheduled for tomorrow (Monday, May 4): "Please spread the word to your classmates that due to the closure of Cathedral-Carmel School we have decided to postpone the Alumni Luncheon & May Crowning that was scheduled for Monday, May 4th until further notice. At this time, we do not have another date scheduled but will let you know as soon as we decide. Thank you for understanding."
Henrietta Boriskie
USA - Sunday, May 03, 2009 at 17:58:24 (MST)
Slowly but surely, Gerald is recovering. He is now off the heart/lung machine and actually was seated in a chair. Thank you all for your concern and prayers. Spring really reflects how wonderful it is to be alive!
Brenda
USA - Sunday, May 03, 2009 at 07:55:16 (MST)
Just heard on the news that there are 5 or 6 cases of Swine Flu in Lafayette, La. and that CathedralCarmel school is closed. Please be safe!
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, April 29, 2009 at 19:05:56 (MST)
Brenda, I am so sorry to hear about Martha's husband. He certainly will be in my prayers.
Doris
USA - Wednesday, April 29, 2009 at 12:19:40 (MST)
Prayers are requested for my brother-in-law (my sister Martha's husband, Gerald)as he is critically ill following heart surgery this morning. Things did not go well and he may not make it. Thank you for your prayers!
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 19:53:29 (MST)
Send me one too, Suzanne.
Brenda
USA - Friday, April 24, 2009 at 19:11:27 (MST)
Yvette seems to have straightened out my facebook page. Doris and OP, did you get my invitation.? Lauren will help me with a picture later.
Suzanne
USA - Friday, April 24, 2009 at 18:37:56 (MST)
That is a good one, Brenda. Thanks for the compliments on Madelyn. She is a clown sometimes. Can't you tell by the expression on that second picture? She does the funniest things that just keeps us in stitches.
Doris
USA - Friday, April 24, 2009 at 12:37:03 (MST)
Can't resist this one: This 80 year old woman was arrested for shop lifting.
When she went before the judge he asked her,"What did you steal?" She replied, "A can of peaches." The judge then asked her how many peaches were in the can. She replied 6. The judge then said, "I will then give you 6 days in jail." Before the judge could actually pronounce the punishment, the woman's husband spoke up and asked the judge if he could say something. The judge said, "What is it?" The husband said, "She also stole a can of peas."
Brenda
USA - Friday, April 24, 2009 at 09:37:21 (MST)
You just can't keep good people down. Beautiful child Doris. We are enjoying Festival International this week/weekend. The weather is fantastic and so is the crowds. Puts Lafayette on the frank-a-phone map. Tonight we will be attending a wedding between John Chance's granddaughter and Bill Fenstermaker's son at St. John Cathedral where all of our family were married. Such a Holy place.
gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Friday, April 24, 2009 at 09:13:56 (MST)
J.J., I don't mind hearing bad news after it turns to good news. Don't let that episode keep you and Lita from continuing to travel and have fun. Wonderful news, Doris!
Brenda
USA - Friday, April 24, 2009 at 08:39:49 (MST)
Glad to hear JJ,Doris and Charles are all doing well. I guess we can't get out of this world alive after all!!! Beautiful child Doris.
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Friday, April 24, 2009 at 03:48:33 (MST)
Sorry to hear your bad news, J.J. But glad to hear you are doing better. Charles had the "all clear" from M.D.Anderson today. Dr. said the activity they saw in the other petscan has decreased and it is probably just scar tissue. God is Good. By the way, my shoulder is still doing fine. Still no pain and I am reaching farther and farther every day.
Doris
USA - Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 19:08:44 (MST)
Wow ! I went down again. Two pacemakers, one to regulate an one to monitor. To make me feel better Lita and I rented and very nice condo in Branson Mo. First night Lita wanted to see Stx and I said O. K. , Not my kind of music; but I will go. It was not Stx; but Six and they were more my style and I enjoyed them. The next day I caught the flu. I got dehydrated. I could not get from the bed to the bathroom. Lita called the condo people and explained my problem and they panicked. I am sure that their panic was fueled by in fear of having their very expensive carpet soiled. The called 911 and security, the fire department and an ambulance arrived. I was the center of attention. Then off for a brief stay at the hospital and then back home.
J.J. <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
Larose, La USA - Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 15:34:46 (MST)
Wow, darling picture of Madeline, Doris. How is Charles?
Brenda
USA - Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 13:58:09 (MST)
Doris, don't feel bad, I can't find "Suzanne Durand Bernard" on Facebook either. You sure about your exact name on Facebook? Or you on MYSpace instead?
O.P.
USA - Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 07:31:51 (MST)
Doris, my name on face book is Suzanne Durand Bernard. How do I find you? Suzie just gave me a crash course so this doesn't seem hard to understand.
Suzanne
USA - Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at 16:38:35 (MST)
Sue, I am still trying to find friends on Facebook and not suceeding. Like for instance you. I can't find you. I guess I don't know how to do it. All the friends I have or either my children, grandchildren and a handful of others who have invited me to be their friend.
Doris
USA - Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at 08:17:03 (MST)
Do you have your reservation for the C/C Alumni Luncheon? Father Hampton Davis will be the special guest speaker at the Cathedral-Carmel Alumni Luncheon on Monday, May 4, at 11:00 a.m. The lunch will be catered by Carabba's Italian Grill, and activities are planned from 8:15 a.m. 'til 2:00 p.m. If interested, send your $25 check made payable and mailed to CCS Alumni, 848 St. John Street, Lafayette, LA 70501.
Henrietta
USA - Monday, April 20, 2009 at 21:12:58 (MST)
I am now on facebook. Now I have to learn how to use it. This looks like fun!
Suzanne
USA - Monday, April 20, 2009 at 17:21:54 (MST)
My daughter, Margaret, came for lunch and spent some time getting me on Twitter and Face Book. She used an AOL e-mail address for me. O.P., have you gotten a schedule for the "S.L.I." reunion events? We happen to have a wedding in Lafayette that Saturday, so I'm be sure to be at the Saturday events. I don't know the details of any of them yet.
Brenda
USA - Monday, April 20, 2009 at 14:53:07 (MST)
Brenda, what you need to do is go to http://mail.google.com and sign up for your own email address. Then you can use that email address to sign up for Facebook, or any other service. Gmail is easy to use, you get to it through any browser you use for the internet (Internet Explorer, or Firefox, etc). Call me on the phone if you are having trouble signing up with Gmail or Facebook. I can talk you through it.
O. P. <opditch@gmail.com>
Woodbridge, VA USA - Monday, April 20, 2009 at 10:05:12 (MST)
O.P., I cannot sign on using our e-mail address because John already used it to answer one of our grand children's invitations and it won't let me use the same address. I would really like to do one of those things you mentioned.
Brenda
USA - Sunday, April 19, 2009 at 14:10:24 (MST)
Yes Brenda, You will likely see me at a lot of these "Tea Parties." Ok, lets see, we are gathering a crowd on Facebook. Me (Oliver Ditch), Marshall, Doris..... who's next? Come on folks get with the 21st Century, time is flying by. Oh and for those on Twitter, I'm also there, my Twitter handle is @Vets4Sarah.
O.P. <opditch@gmail.com>
Woodbridge, VA USA - Sunday, April 19, 2009 at 13:31:29 (MST)
O.P., we just saw you on George Stephanopoulos's show waving a tea bag. How do you manage to be on the front row at those rallies? You looked like you were having a good time. Doris, we were not hurt, but it broke my heart to have my new car so damaged. I was determined to keep this car in pristine condition like my sister, Martha, keeps her car. Oh well, "the best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry."
Brenda
USA - Sunday, April 19, 2009 at 09:25:42 (MST)
Do hope you guys were not hurt too badly.
Doris
USA - Saturday, April 18, 2009 at 18:08:25 (MST)
Just got rear-ended in my new car. John was driving and we had just exited the Interstate when a large truck hit us from behind. I'm going to be so sore tomorrow!!! Almost the same thing happened a few years ago, but that time it was a hit-and-run driver.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, April 18, 2009 at 15:02:42 (MST)
Brenda, you have to try it to find out!
Marshall <LARR1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Saturday, April 18, 2009 at 03:24:01 (MST)
Marshall, that's what I hear. That you hear from people from your past. How does that happen?
Brenda
USA - Friday, April 17, 2009 at 07:44:45 (MST)
Hi Brenda! Yep like you, I kept getting invites to join Facebook until I finally 'joined'! I actually heard from a lot of people with whom I had lost contact. I'm still learning, but it is a lot to fun.
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venic, FL USA - Friday, April 17, 2009 at 03:16:47 (MST)
Are any of you into Face book or Twittering? I keep getting invitations from people to join them, but they don't explain how to do it. Hope I'm not missing out on something fun. Actually, I'm glad that it is not simple to get into this website. There are too many looney's out there.
Brenda
USA - Thursday, April 16, 2009 at 13:40:38 (MST)
HAPPY EASTER TO EVERYONE. My New Orleans grandchildren are all here for the holiday. They are still sleelping. Doris, I'm so happy that your surgery went so well and you seem to still have no pain. The real pain is knowing that you now have 3 children over 50. Yes, I remember when we were in the hospital together. Michelle is 50 today. She didn't want anything black so we are giving her things like elastic waist shorts, real panties, red lipsticks, Silver Centrum and a few unmentionable items. We will be out in the country tomorrow; sure hope the rain holds off until late afternoon. The girls did all the planning for this one (about 65 people) and all I have to do is cook a brisket and be there. Brenda, how did you like the Zoo? We would go there every time I visited Yvette. Did you go to the wild animal park? I remember how wonderful both places were. Did you go to the butterfly enclosure? I had butterfly's land on my head and shoulders. I think you can tell that it was fun.
Suzanne
USA - Saturday, April 11, 2009 at 05:57:02 (MST)
HAPPY EASTER, everyone! Today we went to the San Diego Zoo. It's supposed to be one the finest in the world because of the way the animals are housed and how many rare animals they have. They are part of the attempt to save and breed almost extinct animals. We took an elevated tram over the zoo and I held on so tightly that I could hardly open my hand after. I never realized I was afraid of heights, but this ride was extremely high! Suzanne, I don't think I would have done well on that ride we were supposed to take on the cruise excursion. A few nights ago we went to the Angel's baseball game and the pitcher was killed after the game in an accident by a drunk driver. People are really in mourning in the city. I did get to some of the Triduum liturgies this weekend, but I am leaving early in the morning to have Easter in Baton Rouge. Hope all of you enjoy the peace and beauty of the Easter season!
Brenda
USA - Friday, April 10, 2009 at 21:39:36 (MST)
HAPPY EASTER TO ALL OF YOU, TOO.
Doris
USA - Friday, April 10, 2009 at 05:16:28 (MST)
Hope you all have a happy and holy Easter. I have one group coming in today and another
group on Sunday. It's a lot of work cooking all the food but is such fun to have all the kids
and grandkids home at one time!
Patsy Franques
USA - Thursday, April 09, 2009 at 11:08:35 (MST)
Sue, how does it feel to have a daughter 50 years old. I know Michelle's birthday is this coming week. Chuck's is on the 15th. Sue and I were in the hospital at the same time with these two babies. Now that makes me have three children over 50. Terrible, huh?
Doris
USA - Wednesday, April 08, 2009 at 17:46:56 (MST)
I just came back from my water therapy. The water felt HEAVENLY. What a wonderful way to do therapy. The therapist said I was doing wonderfully. He kept praising my Dr. I also feel sure he IS the best Dr. for shoulders. By the way he is from Baton Rouge.
Doris
USA - Tuesday, April 07, 2009 at 11:41:01 (MST)
The nights might get down to 48 or so, but the days might get up to 70. That's the temperature that everyone lives by. Even though the evenings are chilly,they might sit outside at night in tank tops while I have a turtle neck sweater AND a jacket. They are all healthy so I guess they are a hardy bunch.
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, April 07, 2009 at 09:25:34 (MST)
Gosh, Brenda what is the temperature over there? It is beautiful, but cold today. The wind is quite nippy. It is suppose to be in the 30's here tomorrow morning. Too cold for April, I think. Can't wait for a little more warmth. I am sure it is coming soon enough.
Doris
USA - Monday, April 06, 2009 at 11:48:55 (MST)
I'm in Orange, Ca and it is so nice to still be able to read what kind of weekend others, like Doris, are having, thanks to O.P. and this website. The weather here seems cold to me, but this family wears summer clothes with jackets! They also keep the ceiling fans going and have the windows open--NO SCREENS! Hope all of you have a beautiful Easter with family and friends.
Brenda
USA - Monday, April 06, 2009 at 11:07:43 (MST)
I just came home from the Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival. Oh what fun !!! The weather was great for it. There is so so much art - all differant kinds of art to see. Three differant stages with music and dancing and food and drinks all along the beautiful waterway here in the Woodlands. Artist from all over are here to show their art. There were a lot of people,and of course the Houston Open is being played not far from here this week-end also. On a pretty week-end like this people come out like ants that come running out of a hill you have kicked. It is truly a great place to live. Wish all of you could come visit sometimes. Mitch and his two little boys took me along with them. It wasn't too tiring because you could stop along the way and sit and enjoy the music or dancing or just people watch which is fun way to spend a beautiful Sun. afternoon.
Doris
USA - Sunday, April 05, 2009 at 14:19:27 (MST)
Hi guys, I am still doing great. Have been going for walks in this beautiful weather. Went to the Dr. and he was amazed that I never had any pain. I start my water therapy Tues. I know I will be sore then, but it will just be muscular pain that I know will go away with more work. Thanks again for all the prayers.
Doris
USA - Saturday, April 04, 2009 at 08:30:37 (MST)
Just want everyone to know I am doing fine. Still no pain. I go to the Dr. tomorrow. Thanks for all the prayers. I know this pulled me through.
Doris
USA - Wednesday, April 01, 2009 at 05:17:57 (MST)
ATTENTION CC 55 (girls) The April 1 lunch is CANCELLED. We will reschedule as soon as possible.
Suzanne
USA - Saturday, March 28, 2009 at 07:56:26 (MST)
Spoke to Doris and she is doing wonderfully! She had her right shoulder replaced in surgery yesterday. At this point, she is FREE OF PAIN, but she can't use her arm at all for weeks. She's so happy to be pain free and she deserves to be pain free after suffering for a long time with her condition. She now has two new hips and a new shoulder. Her left shoulder will be replaced in the future. Sue, I will try to come Wednesday. I just bought a new Hybrid so it'll break it in.
Brenda
USA - Friday, March 27, 2009 at 14:14:35 (MST)
ATTENTION CLASS OF 55 (girls) We will be having lunch at the Olive Garden next Wednesday, April 1, at 11:30 Call me if you plan to attend 9882331. I have to know what size table to get.
Suzanne
USA - Friday, March 27, 2009 at 06:54:27 (MST)
Haven't heard anything about Doris's surgery. I'll call her house today. That's a good idea to visit the Mt. Carmel Sisters when we meet next. I wonder why Sister Ann Carmel wasn't there Sunday. I hope she's still doing well.
Brenda
USA - Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 11:37:18 (MST)
Paul and I missed the Mt. Carmel 175th celebration because this Senior moments lady failed to check the calendar and made other plans for Sunday. I was at a Day of Recollection at St. Pius this week, and former Bonnie Langlinais said it was nice, however she mentioned that Sister Ann Carmel wasn't there. Next time we all get together for lunch, we should visit our old sisters at St. Leo's in Lafayette. What's the latest on Doris's surgery?
Henrietta
USA - Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 17:58:22 (MST)
Henrietta, thank you for the information about Barbara's Mother and for her address. Did you go to the Mt. Carmel celebration? How was it?
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 06:24:56 (MST)
Hate to hear that, Doris. Hope the surgery will be extremely successful and you will soon be pain free!!
Brenda
USA - Monday, March 23, 2009 at 13:59:52 (MST)
Thanks Brenda for remembering me. I have been having a difficult time off my celebex. The pain killers they gave me had terrible side effects. I just can't take them.
Doris
USA - Sunday, March 22, 2009 at 14:57:45 (MST)
Classmate Barbara Duhon Adams lost her mother, Gussie Duhon at age 92, this past week. Mrs. Duhon was living happily at a nursing home in Franklin, near Barbara and Gary, until a recent stroke. The funeral Mass was held at St. John's Cathedral, on Friday. Barbara's mailing address is 608 Third Street, Franklin, LA 70538-5406.
Henrietta
USA - Sunday, March 22, 2009 at 12:40:54 (MST)
I had to give the Norwegian Cruise Line a plug. After John got sick and couldn't go on the cruise at the last moment, we received reimbursement for over $900. We were very pleasantly surprised. Doris is having her surgery Wednesday. We'll be praying for you, Doris.
Brenda
USA - Sunday, March 22, 2009 at 08:40:10 (MST)
This was in the Holy Cross bulletin last Sunday. "The Sisters of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel's 175th Anniversary Celebration cancelled in September due to Gustav has been rescheduled for: Sunday, March 22nd at 2pm in the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist. Reception to follow in the Cathedral-Carmel School Gym. All are invited to share with the Sisters on this occasion".
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Tuesday, March 17, 2009 at 08:11:15 (MST)
I hope you enjoy the following site as much as I did. http://www.youtube.com/v/D85yrIgA4Nk
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at 19:59:18 (MST)
Oh and I failed to mention we have one of the youngest children too. But I think Maugie and Pat have one younger than Jared.
Doris
USA - Monday, March 09, 2009 at 05:49:13 (MST)
We got married Sept. 17, 1955. So we have been married 53 years. Yes Carleen and Phil got married in Nov. 1958. So they have been married 50 years also. We have two children over 50yrs. old. That is what I can't believe. Chuck our third child will be 50 next month. YIKES!!
Doris
USA - Monday, March 09, 2009 at 05:47:25 (MST)
Doris and Charles were the first of our class to get married. They celebrated their 50th a few years ago. I think that Carleen and Phil have also celebrated their 50th.
Brenda
USA - Sunday, March 08, 2009 at 18:53:32 (MST)
Happy 50th wedding anniversary to Ray and Myra Mouton their "after" picture was in the daily today. I wonder who has been married the longest. Probably one of the Mount Carmel girls?
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Sunday, March 08, 2009 at 11:55:38 (MST)
I was watching the TODAY show this morning and they showed about 5 salads and their equivalent in calories and salt. It was shocking as I always thought getting a salad was the healthiest choice. Sometimes it would be better to eat a whole pizza yourself or a quart of ice cream... (you get the picture?) Check the worst ones out at: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/29514121/?pg=1#TDY_MH_090304_WorstSalads
Brenda
USA - Thursday, March 05, 2009 at 07:44:12 (MST)
J.J. Joe V. Urbanski has his picture in our '59 SLI yearbook. He finished in science-math. Have not seen him since college but hope to see him at our 50th SLI reunion this May.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Wednesday, March 04, 2009 at 06:26:45 (MST)
Does any one know what happned to Jor Uranski. The last time I say him was at my father in laws funeral.
J. J. Erny <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
Larose, USA - Wednesday, March 04, 2009 at 06:01:42 (MST)
Doris, remind us the day before.
Brenda
USA - Monday, March 02, 2009 at 07:19:37 (MST)
Just wanted to let you guys know that I will be having my shoulder replaced on March 25. Please keep me in your prayers. Thanks!!!!!!
Doris
USA - Friday, February 27, 2009 at 19:29:58 (MST)
Good comentary about the old days. Fleetwood was a Cadalic and I had a '57 Chev at the time so I believe John is right a '56 Belaire, can't remember. O.P. and I both were smokers. I don't think Pete smoked much. In those days burmada shorts and sun glasses were a must when you went to Florida. I remember Pete went deep sea fishing and had a bad case of seasickness. J.J. my son has a camp in Pecan Island that is 12 feet above sea leavel and was generally spaired for Ike.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 10:42:35 (MST)
We have been meeting with a contractor to raise the house on Grand Ilse 15 feet into the air. Expensive; but prudent. It is now only four feet off of the ground.
J. J. Erny
USA - Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 09:01:40 (MST)
John said it looks like his '56 Bel-air Chevrolet or maybe a '57 with fins.
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 08:33:15 (MST)
Yes Gerald I remember those days with the reversable speepodomters...if fact Ray Domengeaux use to drive backwards to lower the milege when he went over the amount his Dad told him he could go! Gerald I remember guys used to put in 4 requests for travel on their orders when they divided the cost in 4!!! The military soon caught on to that! I think Doris is right, it looks like a Chevy or a Ford Fairlane? And yes I do remember Crown Gasoline, Gerald. O.P. are you smoking in the picture? I don't ever remember you smoking!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 04:04:55 (MST)
It looks like a Chevrolet. Was there such a one as a Fleetwood? I remember you guys when you looked like that!!!!!!!!!!!! In fact that is the way I remember you. Not too much how you look now. Because I don't see you that often.
Doris
USA - Monday, February 23, 2009 at 20:22:08 (MST)
Marshall we rented this car with Joe Urbanski one of our ROTC cadet friends who is probably taking the picture so that we could divide the cost in four. When we arrived at Eglin and checked into our quarters we decided to jack up the four wheels and put it in reverse overnight so that we could reduce the mileage. In those days the speedometer went backwards. Of course gas was probably $0.25/gallon. Can anyone identify what kind of car we rented and whoever heard of Crown gas?
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Monday, February 23, 2009 at 17:43:35 (MST)
OP, Gerald and Pete...were we ever THAT young?
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Monday, February 23, 2009 at 16:48:15 (MST)
I just realized that I said my birthday is the day before Valentine's Day. It's not. It's the day after. I have been making mistakes ALL day today. I hope it doesn't portend for something more serious!
Brenda
USA - Monday, February 23, 2009 at 14:59:24 (MST)
Thanks, Doris. My birthday is the day before Valentine's Day and so I always celebrate for two days. This year, a friend (Jibber) had us to dinner on Valentine's Day for my birthday, my girls took me to lunch on my birthday, Wednesday, we had another dinner for my birthday at another friends, and then, Friday, our whole family celebrated all of the February/March birthdays of the family--7 in all. Gerald, the Oscar show was so much better this year than usual. I went to an Oscar party dressed like the nun in "Doubt". Guys, do you realize that this is our 72nd year? Boy, does time fly!!!
Brenda
USA - Monday, February 23, 2009 at 09:47:24 (MST)
I forgot to mention "Happy Birthday" to Brenda, who I know had a birthday this week, and to Maugie, whose birthday was the day before mine.
Also Happy Mardi Gras to all of you!!!!!!!!!!
Doris
USA - Sunday, February 22, 2009 at 21:17:39 (MST)
We just had a wonderful Birthday Week. I say week because Charles' birthday was Mon. and mine yesterday. Our children have spread out the celebration all week. We were taken out to eat Wed. and Sat. and Jared and Tiff came spent the week-end with us and Mitch and Jared worked on our computer and got it working great and speedy. The girls have been calling and mailed presents. It is wonderful to have a large caring family. I am sure all of you know what I mean. Oh I forgot to mention all the happy regards from the grandchildren, too. Hope you guys are enjoying the Academy Awards tonight.
Doris
USA - Sunday, February 22, 2009 at 21:14:42 (MST)
Just saw the reader. We gave it a 9. A little risk-ay but very good. Kate Winslet will have a shot for best actress.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Sunday, February 22, 2009 at 17:48:55 (MST)
Just joined safari and realized a significant increase in speed on my computer and it has spell check which I need badly. It is also free. Getting ready to go to the parade tonight. Hope the rain holds off. One of our sons is a float Captain. We usually pick a spot and get showered with beads. The grandkids love it. Brenda I have my DVR set from 6 to 11 Sunday night for the Academy Awards. We saw Slum Dog and found it good but weird. Really enjoyed Frost/Nixon. Happy Mardi Gras to everyone.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Saturday, February 21, 2009 at 11:29:12 (MST)
Now we have seen all of the Oscar nominated films. "The Reader" is my pick for best movie, but I don't think it is supposed to win. They are all great films. We rented "Frozen River" to see the woman nominated as Best Actress and she was superb. Actually, none of the movies are easy to watch. I had thought "Slumdog Millionaire" would be lighthearted and funny, but it was anything but.
Brenda
USA - Friday, February 20, 2009 at 11:39:08 (MST)
J.J. that's because Cajuns LOVE a party!!!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Monday, February 16, 2009 at 04:31:41 (MST)
Does anyone have an email address for Janet DeClouet Whiteside?
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Woodbridge, VA USA - Monday, February 16, 2009 at 04:18:07 (MST)
"was yesterday"
J. J.
USA - Sunday, February 15, 2009 at 23:30:22 (MST)
Carnival time. Our 35th parade way yesterday. There are 5000 people in Larose and there were 10000 people at the parade.
J. J. Erny <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
USA - Sunday, February 15, 2009 at 23:27:00 (MST)
Good news Doris,prayers and masses continue!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Saturday, February 14, 2009 at 04:31:07 (MST)
Just wanted to give all of you an update on our visit to M.D.Anderson. The oncologist over there studied Charles' latest petscan and said he wasn't too concerned about it. He wants Charles to go back over there in two months and take another scan and have their radiologist read it and then they can do some comparison with the two that was taken over here. He said now what ever it is is so small and if it doesn't grow anymore than not to worry. Thanks for the prayers.
Doris
USA - Friday, February 13, 2009 at 20:13:46 (MST)
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY TO ALL OF YOU AND YOUR SWEETHEARTS!
Brenda
USA - Friday, February 13, 2009 at 19:49:02 (MST)
The Cathedral/Carmel Alumni Assn. sent an email, asking for us to spread the word around about their holding a garage sale on Saturday, February 28, from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m., at the Cathedral/Carmel Gym on St. John. They're raising funds for renovations to the gym. So, please try to go if you're local, or let your Lafayette area friends and family know about this event.
Henrietta <hbb929@cox.net>
Lafayette, LA USA - Friday, February 13, 2009 at 08:31:25 (MST)
J.J., I forgot to thank you!!!
Brenda
USA - Friday, February 06, 2009 at 15:17:29 (MST)
J.J., I explained everything to my friend (who is incidentally a Catholic priest, who has recently lost all of his vision due to Macula Degeneration or whatever it's called). He doesn't want to do anything about it because he thinks "it would cause hard feelings"!! He doesn't yet have a seeing-eyed dog, but he did say that he would do something, if a landlord wouldn't let him have his dog with him. Maybe, after a certain point, he'll have to do something in order to get a place to live independently.
Brenda
USA - Friday, February 06, 2009 at 15:17:03 (MST)
Where ot complain 1. HUD 2.Department of Justice, Equal Opportunity Section, P. O. box 94095 B. R. 70804 9095, 504 342 7900. Good Luck. Let me know how you come out.
J. J.
USA - Thursday, February 05, 2009 at 15:12:41 (MST)
Brenda, federal law prohibits discrimination against people who have a physical disability that substantially limits one or major life activities. This includes visual impairments and have a history or record of such a disability or are regarded by others to have such a disability. I think that you can complain to the state or federal fair housing agency. In some cases the land lord might be liable for punitive damages, court costs and have to pay a penalty to the government. Point this out to the land lord and record (via video if possible ) his refusal to rent to the blind. See a lawyer.
J. J. Erny <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
Larose, La USA - Thursday, February 05, 2009 at 14:55:12 (MST)
Good pictures, O.P. Thanks! I've sent them to my daughters.
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, February 04, 2009 at 15:13:19 (MST)
O.P., I'm trying to figure out all of the things on Matthew's birthday cake. It looks like a train engine and some tracks, but what are the other objects?
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, February 03, 2009 at 21:04:34 (MST)
Ok folks anyone who wants to cruise, with friends, you have two choices coming up. Shirley & I are going on an 11 day Tour/Cruise to Alaska on July 16, and Rickey and Barbara, and some others are going to New England and Canada in Sept. So there you go, two great opportunities to cruise with friends. Contact Rickey, our new Cruise/Tour Agent, for the details.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Woodbridge, VA USA - Monday, February 02, 2009 at 08:55:24 (MST)
J.J., I have a legal problem for you to solve for me. Is it lawful for persons to refuse to rent an apartment to a blind person? I have been driving a blind person around to look for apartments and the renters all come up with excuses, except one woman who said that she could not rent to him because he might fall off her porch and sue her. Also, when they say, "No pets allowed" does it include seeing-eye dogs?
Brenda
USA - Monday, February 02, 2009 at 08:03:13 (MST)
Barbara and I have been moving it lately. If fact we went to the movies 3 days in a row. First we went to see the Reader and it was great. Some nudity but done in very good taste. I would recommend it. Next we went to see Taken and it was a kinda James Bond movie. It was also great. Great acting. Yesterday we went to see New girl in town. It as funny and just what we wanted to see. I would recommend all three very much.
Rickey
USA - Monday, February 02, 2009 at 04:17:30 (MST)
Spiderwick ! Buy the dvd and sit on the couch and watch it with very young grand children. They will love it. “Does this make your afraid?” “No just intense; but then I get to snuggle. “
J. J. Erny <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
Larose, USA - Sunday, February 01, 2009 at 15:20:58 (MST)
Happy belated birthday Marshall. Looks like you celebrated six dozen years. Is that about how many raw oysters you ate during the Christmas holidays? Go Cardinals!
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Sunday, February 01, 2009 at 12:43:10 (MST)
Thanks a million! The big day for me is the 30th of Jan. O.P. it's a good thing Grandpa does not spoil the Grand kis!!!!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Sunday, February 01, 2009 at 09:03:33 (MST)
Happy Birthday Marshall. O.P. I love the pictures, especially of your little "Dark eyed Beauty". We have one that just turned 5 also. Nathan was 5 Jan. 7.
Doris
USA - Sunday, February 01, 2009 at 07:27:03 (MST)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARSHALL! Precious children, Doris and O.P. I'm glad we're back to showing those beautiful children again.
Brenda
USA - Sunday, February 01, 2009 at 07:09:13 (MST)
Sorry about the misspelling of your name. My fingers are getting old.
larry
USA - Saturday, January 31, 2009 at 20:38:11 (MST)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARSHSALL!!!!!!!!!!!Yesterday or Today?
Larry
USA - Saturday, January 31, 2009 at 20:35:59 (MST)
The cake looks bigge than Madelyn! Ha! She is a doll, Doris!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Saturday, January 31, 2009 at 15:53:02 (MST)
We certainly will, Doris! Gerald, that was a great movie. It will be difficult to decide who should win the Oscar for best acting. Frank Langella was terrific as Nixon, but so was Sean Penn in "Milk". Every year some friends have an Oscar party (just women) and everyone has to dress like one of the characters from a nominated movie. I am thinking about going as a nun from the movie, "Doubt". Not having too much luck finding an old habit. One sister told me that they cut them all up to make the new habits when they changed. If any of you have any ideas, let me know. I went as dowdy Queen Elizabeth last year and won first place. It was humiliating. I'll have to send that picture.
Brenda
USA - Friday, January 30, 2009 at 19:02:25 (MST)
We went to the oncologist over here in the Woodlands today. There is a small spot in Charles right hilum that has increased in brightness since his last petscan. Dr. said it may be just a blood vessel or it may be a lymph node. We are going back to M.D.Anderson to have it checked out. Please keep Charles in your prayers.
Doris
USA - Friday, January 30, 2009 at 18:35:20 (MST)
Saw Frost/Nixon yesterday with Pat and our daughter. We all throughly enjoyed it. Great acting especially by the two main characters.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Friday, January 30, 2009 at 08:15:07 (MST)
Did you guys know that the Vatican puts out daily news on Youtube? Go to www.youtube.com/vatican.
Doris
USA - Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 09:22:20 (MST)
Yes, Brenda, I did. Thanks for giving us the webpage.
Doris
USA - Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 06:33:45 (MST)
O.P., I have to put in the password now every time I leave a message and I used to not have to do it. Didn't ANYONE look up the website and see the Dueling Pianos? It's our kind of music!
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, January 28, 2009 at 20:36:51 (MST)
Check this out!! http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xe5w0_ray-charles-jerry-lee-lewis
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 14:39:59 (MST)
Thanks for the complement Rickey. Funny you should mention Ivory. I believe he was the first black player Coach Shipley recruited. I remember watching him jump in practice and remove a quarter from the TOP of the backboard. That was an awsome sight.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Monday, January 26, 2009 at 14:49:38 (MST)
Brenda, you are already on the list to receive the info about the reunion.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Woodbridge, VA USA - Sunday, January 25, 2009 at 17:33:40 (MST)
The first black basketball player was Elvin Ivory. He was a tall one. I remember I was in one of his classes and when he took a test all he would write on his paper was ELVIN IVORY and then turn it in and get an A. That'the way things were in those days. That is all except Gerald who had to work hard for all his grades.
Ric key
USA - Sunday, January 25, 2009 at 14:09:54 (MST)
O.P., I always assumed that all who graduated in 1959 would be included in the 50 year ceremonies. I finished in January on 1959 and would like to get the information.
Brenda
USA - Sunday, January 25, 2009 at 09:16:53 (MST)
Oh, now you got me talking/typing. Did I ever announce on here that I got permission of the Alumni people to invite some of my friends/HS classmates who didn't actually graduate in May of 59. If you were in our HS class of 55, but graduated at mid year in Jan 60, you can still come to the 50 year reunion this May. I am helping them recruit people to attend. It is May 15-17. Shirley and I have already made our Air and hotel reservations. Shirley had hers last year and it was a lot of fun. Let me know if you want to be put on the list for information details when it comes out.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Woodbridge, VA USA - Sunday, January 25, 2009 at 05:19:08 (MST)
Well well well, guess I goofed again. I forgot to wish Gerald and Pat Happy Anniversary on Jan 23rd. I did it privately on a Video Conference but not publicly. Sooooooo.... HAPPY ANNIVERSARY GERALD AND PAT, 49 YEARS. Oh an how you all are wondering what "Video Conference" stuff are they using? Well, Gerald got introduced to Skype by his grand daughter. He mentioned it to me When we were trying to do video on AOL. But Skype.com is way better. I think the Skype got started and is currently used by hospitals to show new born babies to relatives over the internet. If any of you are interested in testing it out, you will need to have a Webcam and a microphone hooked up to your computer. I'm lucky that my Macintosh comes with that built in. If you have a PC you have to add that to your machine. You all can now contact either Gerald or me to test it and help you get going with it. Video conferencing is way way better then this message board. Really Kewl! Great way to keep up with the grandkids growing up far away from you.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Woodbridge, VA USA - Sunday, January 25, 2009 at 05:11:21 (MST)
Brenda. It was because USL was getting all the really good black players by offering them things under the table and the other teams they played who were biger schools and probably doing the same things with white only players, but were not caught, turned them in. The top caption of the book reads "The NCAA's Shameful Reaction to Athletic Intergration in the Deep South".
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at 09:00:51 (MST)
Thank you Larry for always coming up with the information we need. Gerald, why did the NCAA give SLI a two-year suspension? Is it because they had Black players on the team????? It's easy to forget what those days were really like. It was a non-event at SLI,that is, for us white students. There was one music student in our classes and she was very quiet and sat in the back. I wonder what it was like for her. I do wish some of the older Black people that I knew had lived to see this day.
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 20:22:38 (MST)
I thought that it was a none event too. Who worried about it. The ones that came to school were bright, clean and well behaved. That is more than I could say about some of the white students.
J. J. Erny <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
USA - Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 19:00:54 (MST)
Thanks Larry and Brenda. This is a very interesting subject to me.
My recollection of the desegration issue in our day was that it was a non-event. S.L.I. had students there that were black in some of my classes and we thought nothing of it. Just looked at my '59 and '60 yearbooks and noticed, to my surprise, that I had a young black male and a young black female on each side of me in each year graduating. Don't know why my picture was in both years but those two were Reaux's just like me. I never knew that until now. So academically it was common. Athletically it was another story. I have a book that was given to me titled "slam dunked" by Ron Gomez that cronicals the admittance of the first black basketball players at USL by my old coach Beryl Shipley. They were the first in any Louisiana college and USL paid a healthy price for there inclusion. Other schools became envious of them and eventually the NCAA handed them a two year suspension. It was the equilvent of the death sentence in college basketball. Do we have any other recollections that could be posted for the class to enjoy.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 13:05:57 (MST)
SLI was intergrated in the fall semester of 1954 with 114 Black students.
LARRY
USA - Monday, January 19, 2009 at 21:36:16 (MST)
In this morning's Advocate, there was an article about a 90 year old Lafayette woman who had brought a lawsuit to desegregate SLI many years ago. Peculiarly they didn't give the date of the lawsuit or when SLI was desegregated. I had thought that it must have been around 1955 because I remember wondering how it was going to be at SLI when we attended. Do any of you(Gerald)remember those facts?
Brenda
USA - Monday, January 19, 2009 at 19:49:07 (MST)
Whew! I am glad I am in Texas in a balmy 60 degrees.
Doris
USA - Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 12:34:30 (MST)
I can hardly believe it myself, but it is ONE (1) degree outside here in Woodbridge, VA. WOW!! What a deep freeze this is. They had predicted 9 but it is now 1 degree Fahrenheit right here in Woodbridge.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Woodbridge, VA USA - Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 05:10:29 (MST)
Doris, I'm so sorry about Jared's baby. It's never easy to lose one like that. I'll remember them in my prayers.
Brenda
USA - Friday, January 16, 2009 at 19:51:38 (MST)
We just came from seeing "Gran Torino". I agree it was an excellant movie. Makes you think twice about some of these "Grumpy ole men". They are good way down deep, huh?
Doris
USA - Friday, January 16, 2009 at 15:06:12 (MST)
Sorry to hear about your loss Doris. I have another to report. Gene Bourdier who was in our class in the 7th or 8th grade passed Saturday. I recognized him in today's obit in the Advertiser. He must have left Cathedral and went to a school in Opelousas. He was 71.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Friday, January 16, 2009 at 10:02:46 (MST)
Sad news this morning. Jared and Tiffany have lost their baby. I am sure it is God's will. Everything will be all right.
Doris
USA - Friday, January 16, 2009 at 08:40:25 (MST)
If anyone is interested in the picture I'm refering to in the entry below, it is listed in the Cathedral home page under memory lane 3.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 16:15:44 (MST)
Wow what beautiful oysters J.J. Reminds me of when O.P., Carroll Comeaux and I took our '57 Chev to visit you and your parents after graduation. Your dad went somewhere and bought a gallon of shucked oysters. We sat at his kitchen table and ate oysters for a while. After that we went to the French Quarter and washed them down. I sent O.P. the picture of all four of us in Jail with the fake rubber bars bent by J.J. Needless to say we had a blast. Those were the good old days.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 13:53:54 (MST)
JJ in that picture of the HUGE oysters..should that read '4 to the pound' rather than 4 to the dozen? I ate 7 doz raw while I was home for the Holidays! They were fantastic...really salty and fat! Of course when they are as big as the ones you harvested, I like them fried rather than raw!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 13:35:00 (MST)
Gerald, John and I should score movies like you and Pat do. He didn't like it as much as I did, though he thought it was good. I thought a few things were off, but on the whole, I really enjoyed it.
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 23:20:47 (MST)
Brenda we saw it last Friday and I really liked it, 0 to 10 I gave it an 8.5. Pat gave it an 8. It may be Clint Eastwood's last movie? I believe his son wrote the music score played at the end of the move while the credits were rolling.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 18:28:50 (MST)
Run, don't walk to see "Grand Torino"! In my opinion, it was better than all of the other movies we saw in December.
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 15:52:44 (MST)
Never was good at typing numbers!!!!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Monday, January 12, 2009 at 05:50:01 (MST)
Well Marshall unless he is like Benjamin Button he will remember his 34th birthday. That game shows you how an underdog can sometime bite you bad. Just installed a web cam to my computer. With the help of O.P. we will now be able to see our grandaughter in Stubenville Ohio who is away at college. Pat is always anxious to talk now see her. Very inexpensive $50.00 including the tax. Must have your good face on though the camera does not lie.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 11:40:44 (MST)
WOW what happened to Jake last night? He'll remember his 24th birthday for a long time!!!!!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 05:02:09 (MST)
I don't know what happened to my message Brenda, but I left a message about Fr. Sidney Becnel! I said yes I knew him. I think he was a relative of Fr. Harry Benefiel from Lafayette. I had not heard he died. I will offer my mass this morning for the peaceful repose of his soul.
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 05:00:22 (MST)
JJ, did you forget what you wanted my email address for? You were supposed to send me a photo. PHOTO JJ
It's tough when we get old.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Woodbridge, va USA - Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 04:58:26 (MST)
Marshall, I just heard today that the former Fr. Sidney Becnel has died. He had left the priesthood about 15 years ago and lived in New Jersey. He had pancreatic cancer and was surviving much longer than he should have. Turns out that he went down to New Orleans after Katrina and was volunteering down there, and contracted West Nile Virus. He died from that in December. I think you might have known him as he is about our age.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, January 10, 2009 at 12:21:12 (MST)
Still judgeerny@mobiletel.com/
J.J. Erny
USA - Friday, January 09, 2009 at 06:20:02 (MST)
How about them Gators??????
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Thursday, January 08, 2009 at 21:54:59 (MST)
JJ, my email address is below. Don't know if I have your latest address either. Is yours still: judgeerny@mobiletel.com?
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Woodbridge, VA USA - Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 07:22:01 (MST)
O. P. I need your email address. I lost all of my email addresses in a computer crash. I have photo that I want to send. J.J.
J. J. Erny
USA - Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 06:15:06 (MST)
A discussion might begin on this website after reading Stanley Fish's list of the 10 best movies of all time. You can read it at: http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/the-10-best-american-movies/?emc=eta1. I'm not sure I agree with him 100%, but I did like "Groundhog Day."
Brenda
USA - Monday, January 05, 2009 at 08:09:03 (MST)
Yeah, right !!!!!!Brenda.
doris
USA - Sunday, January 04, 2009 at 10:06:32 (MST)
How about this trip for our next Norwegian cruise?
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1778399&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1
Brenda
USA - Sunday, January 04, 2009 at 09:07:46 (MST)
Great picture, Doris! Thanks for sharing it with us.
Brenda
USA - Friday, January 02, 2009 at 16:38:42 (MST)
Happy New Year, everyone. We are having so much fun with Madelyn. She is a "Trip". She has such a personality for a yr. old. She does her lips like "Popeye", you know how he talks out of one side of his mouth!! Well she bites down on one side of her upper lip and the other bottom side goes down. Just too funny and the more you laugh at her the more faces she makes and dances up and down. She took two steps on her own tonight. I am sure she will be walking soon. Everyone in the Woodlands and from Lafayette were here today. Just Pennye and her family and Jared and Tiffany were not here. I was so glad we had good weather. My little house sure does get pretty small when they all come. But outside is just fine, because we have such a big back yard.Brenda you and John keep the movies going over there. They don't do much business with Charles and I we go so seldom. Not that we don't like to go. We never seem to know just what to see.
Doris
USA - Thursday, January 01, 2009 at 19:29:46 (MST)
Happy New Year! We went to see "Doubt" today and discovered we were at the wrong theater where it wasn't playing. The only movie we could see right then was "Valkyrie" which hadn't been rated too highly. It wasn't too bad though. I wish Tom Cruise hadn't starred in it because I don't think he was right for the part. Guess we'll have to go back tomorrow to see "Doubt."
Brenda
USA - Thursday, January 01, 2009 at 15:20:57 (MST)
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!! The tigers were great last night and that young QB did a wonderful job. We stayed awake until midnight, the first time in many years. I'm a little jealous of all the new babys, Doris. My new ones will have to be great grandchildren (one of these days). I had planned to watch a lot of football and maybe take down all the Christmas decorations but those movies sound a lot more interesting.
Suzanne
USA - Thursday, January 01, 2009 at 09:19:31 (MST)
Happy New Year you all! We had mixed emotions about the LSU/Georgia Tech game last night -- our daughter graduated from LSU, and son graduated from Georgia Tech.
Henrietta
USA - Thursday, January 01, 2009 at 06:13:48 (MST)
Happy New Year to all. Doris, glad to hear about the new babies. You will have to rent a hall for
holidays since your family is growing and growing. Hope the Tigers win tonight!!
Patsy Franques
USA - Wednesday, December 31, 2008 at 16:24:56 (MST)
Brenda, we went to see Marley and Me yesterday too. I read the book and YOU HAVE GOT TO READ THE BOOK. It is so so much funnier. The book is really about the dog. Where I found the movie to be about the Man. Charles liked the movie, because he didn't read the book. But I was dissapointed. Of course I knew they couldn't put it all in a movie. Even the reason for them moving to PA was not like the book. About the Beagle why don't you just leave some food out for him somewhere then back away. Poor thing is probably scared of people for some reason. I am waiting for Pam and Jenni to come from Lafayette with our "Baby Girl" Madelyn. Can't wait to see her again.
Doris
USA - Wednesday, December 31, 2008 at 14:29:34 (MST)
It is wonderful, Doris, however, you will be so far ahead of all of us that we will never catch up. Even with all of the crowds of people around here for the holidays, John and I have sneaked away to the movies and I brought some of the grandchildren to see, "Marley and Me." We enjoyed "the Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and I enjoyed, "Yes man", but John didn't. We want to see "Doubt" also. "Marley and Me" has an ending that had me absolutely sobbing because of my experience with Sherlock. Other than that, it was a funny movie; a little absurd. John's blood pressure could not have stood that one because he would NEVER keep a dog that caused so much destruction. Speaking of dogs, I spent a lot time yesterday trying to catch a beautiful little Beagle who is obviously lost. I only succeeded in making it walk an extra mile or so. It is so tired and won't come to anyone. I can't get near enough to see if he/she has tags and, if it doesn't stop to eat some food, I don't know what will happen to it. Any suggestions?
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, December 31, 2008 at 14:18:42 (MST)
Hey!!! Everybody!! I have some great news. We are having TWO new babies in the family !!!! Jared and Tiffany are having a baby. And my grandson Brandon and his wife are having one. So that is a new grandbaby and a new great grandbaby. Isn't that wonderful?
Doris
USA - Tuesday, December 30, 2008 at 19:22:36 (MST)
Just finished writing the longest account of our Christmas activities and lost it when I submitted it without my name at the top. Can't go through that again, but I do want to wish all of you a wonder-filled new year in 2008 with the peace of Christ reigning in our hearts and throughout the whole world.
Brenda
USA - Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 21:24:08 (MST)
Ha!Ha! It's a secret between J.J. and I !!!!!!!! No, Rickey, it is a robotic vacuum cleaner. Really neat. You just push a button and you can sit down and read while your house is being vacuumed. Goes under furniture, where the big vacuum can't reach and goes in corners. My little dog thinks it is something after her because she runs in front of it and barks,sometimes. Thank goodnes not all the time.
Doris
USA - Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 07:41:17 (MST)
OK J.J. AND Doris I give up what is an ibot? I was waiting for someone to tell me what it is but no one has come thru. Will you tell me.
Ric key
USA - Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 06:07:55 (MST)
I did it again it is Irobot. Just getting too old I guess.
Doris
USA - Saturday, December 27, 2008 at 13:29:15 (MST)
Sorry I mispelled it. It is Ibot. Good pictures of your handsome children, Brenda and Rickey.
Doris
USA - Saturday, December 27, 2008 at 13:28:17 (MST)
J.J. my son Jared gave me an Inrobot also. I have been having fun with it. It does do a good job.
Doris
USA - Friday, December 26, 2008 at 20:23:02 (MST)
All of our children and grand children were here for Christmas. Great but exhausting. I gave Lita (among other things) an irobot. It is a marvel. It cleans the floors and when it is done it plugs itslelf in for recharge and another job.
J. J. Erny
USA - Friday, December 26, 2008 at 18:25:28 (MST)
Going to N.O. to watch the Hornets play Houston at 7:00 P.M. tonight. I will be with my son Raymond and his two boys. We will all have Hornet tee shirts on if you are interested in catching the game.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Friday, December 26, 2008 at 09:22:25 (MST)
I hope everyone is enjoying a wonderful Christmas holiday with family and friends. We are waiting for our son Johnny's family as they are arriving in the middle of the night.
Brenda
USA - Thursday, December 25, 2008 at 17:57:53 (MST)
MERRY CHRISTMAS to all! I hope everyone has a wonderful day. Mine will be full of grandchildren and Santa and food. (Maybe a little wine)
Suzanne
USA - Thursday, December 25, 2008 at 10:38:03 (MST)
Ditto from the Reaux's. We are so fortunate to be with family and friends this time of year.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Thursday, December 25, 2008 at 10:36:56 (MST)
Thanks J.J. and a Merry Christmas to you and ALL of you reading this today. Hope you have a very Merry and Holy Christmas. We went to mass last night and I just loved it with all the singing of Christmas Carols.
Doris
USA - Thursday, December 25, 2008 at 09:32:01 (MST)
Merry Christmas to all !
J. J. Erny
USA - Thursday, December 25, 2008 at 07:08:01 (MST)
The other night Essie and Don came over for a gumbo. We all had a great time. Suzanne also came. She kept us entertained with her stories. Hope everyone has a VERY AND HOLY CHRISTMAS. I know I will. Tonight we are going out with my daughter and her family. We do this every year, and tomorrow we are going to Barbara's oldest sons house for Christmas dinner. After that we are going to a friend in Abbeville for a party. Saturday we are going to Sulphur for Christmas with Barbara's family. Her dad is 93 years old and still going strong.
Well again HAPPY CHRISTMAS
Rickey
USA - Wednesday, December 24, 2008 at 03:55:41 (MST)
They are precious, Doris. I know they will always remember you and those gingerbread houses.
Brenda
USA - Monday, December 22, 2008 at 19:47:10 (MST)
That gingerbread house those three little boys put together looks like something BOYS would do doesn't it??? Let me tell you - - - those three keep their Mom and Dad and their other grandparents and Charles and I busy *** !!!! But we are enjoying every minute of it. Wish we could have spent as much time with all of our grandchildren.
Doris
USA - Monday, December 22, 2008 at 14:49:00 (MST)
I was glad to read Patsy's poem which she wrote to give vent to her feelings after Betty's death. It's amazing how that works. Artists have always used their mediums to express their feelings and I'm happy that Patsy shared hers with us.
Brenda
USA - Sunday, December 21, 2008 at 07:07:30 (MST)
Thank you for reminding us of the one year anniversary of Betty's death, Patsy. I will offer my mass on Sunday for the peaceful repose of her soul.
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Friday, December 19, 2008 at 15:11:51 (MST)
Betty died one year ago on December 21. I still miss her very much. I wrote a poem after her
death and I want to share it with all of you. GOD GIVES US LIFE AND WHEN THE TIME COMES HE TAKES
IT AWAY. NO MATTER HOW MUCH WE WANTED TO KEEP BETTY IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE FOR HER TO STAY.
FRIENDSHIPS AND FAMILY RAN DEEP IN HER VEINS. WHAT A GIFT IT WAS FOR ALL OF US TO HAVE BEEN
HER FRIEND. SHE WAS A BRAVE AND STRONG PERSON AND ON TOP OF HER GAME UNTIL THE END.
HER EYES LIT UP WHEN SHE TALKED ABOUT HER "RACHAEL', HER PRECIOUS, SWEET GRANDCHILD.
LET'S ALL HOLD ON TO OUR WONDERFUL MEMORIES AND REALIZE THAT OUR SADNESS WILL LINGER FOR
AWHILE.
Patsy Franques
USA - Friday, December 19, 2008 at 14:03:26 (MST)
Brenda, the pictures are great. LOVE #13. What a hunk!!!!!!!!
Suzanne
USA - Wednesday, December 17, 2008 at 07:18:56 (MST)
I'm glad everyone came back from the cruise in great form. I didn't. I have a full blown cold and have a colonoscopy tomorrow. I tried to get out of it because of the cold, but they said it wouldn't be a problem. Consequently, it has knocked out almost another week of the Christmas season and I don't have the first decoration up! I will send O.P. my pictures soon. Suzanne took a lot of them with my camera, with me standing in front of some view to show John. O.P., are you going to put any others of yours on this site? Jackie Mequet Burley and Claudette Prejean LeBlanc were also on the cruise and everyone was so lovely to me. We did a lot of fancy eating and a lot of shopping. Sammy was so upset at being left with John for a week that he stopped being housebroken. He was doing so well before I left and I will have to start over. Golly, I surely sound negative! A bad cold will do that!
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 06:50:34 (MST)
Doris the next cruise is on the Royal Caribbean ship Jewel of the Sea. If you would like I can send you an itenary of the cruise. Are you thinking of coming with us. I sure hope so. It's always fun to be with people you know. I found this out on this cruise. I think we will go in to Boston a few days early to see the city. I have two friends who came on the last one and they are coming on this one. We have to have some deposits to hold the cabins we have reserved. The ship is pretty booked up. The deposits are fully refundable up to a certain date. By the way how is Charles? It sounds like he is doing great. Well have a happy and holy season.
Rickey
USA - Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 04:05:03 (MST)
Rickey, which cruise lines will the Sept. cruise be on?
Doris
USA - Monday, December 15, 2008 at 20:10:18 (MST)
Oh yes Doris, we were on the trip. We all had a wonderful time!!!!! The service was great and the food was (what can I say?) I gained a few pounds. We had shows every night, lectures on art during the day and so many other things. Something was going on all the time. The ship was easy to get around. The weather was warm until we got to Cozumel. I think we were getting winds from the cold front that brought the snow here. Our first port was Costa Maya, Mexico. Rickey was so upset with the poverty he canceled all his other land tours. They are recovering from a hurricane that hit them dead on last year and it is easy to see the damage it did. The port has been opened for only a few months. I think we all came home very relaxed and ready for the next cruise. Now it's time to get back to reality!!!!!!!
Suzanne
USA - Monday, December 15, 2008 at 09:59:54 (MST)
Doris the girl that I was standing with was an old classmate from Lafayette. She was Theresa Broussard. I hadn't seen her since high school and spoke to her about 20 minutes before I reconized her. She was rooming with another friend of Barabara and I, Rosalind Stockstill. They both lost their husbands and became friends. It was Rosalind's first cruise and I think she had a blast. Brenda's husband got sick before we left and he didn't make the trip. It was Brenda's first trip also and Suzanne and Yvonne to her under their wing. I think everyone in our group had fun. We got back about 3 yesterday afternoon. My next cruise is on September 26 of next year. We will be leaving from Boston and then Portland Maine and St. John on the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick Canada and then go to Halifax Nova Scotia. Ya'll can expect a phone call from me later on about the trip. Fr. Blessing did a good job on the weddings. We were five couples. OP and Shirley celebrated their 50 and Barbara and I had our 25. Take care and Marshall I will see you later on this month.
Rickey
USA - Monday, December 15, 2008 at 05:42:00 (MST)
I didn't know that was the renewal of vows, Marshall, I am glad you told me. I just viewed day 4. It reminded me of Indonesia. We went in 1995. Chuck was living in Jakarta at the time. Parts of the city was modern with big buildings etc., but most of the country was like you see in Guatemala. I am glad I finally saw Sue and Brenda, I was beginning to wonder if they had gone on the trip after all.
Doris
USA - Thursday, December 11, 2008 at 18:08:03 (MST)
Finally opened up "day2 and day 3". They seem to be having a good time. We woke up early this morning to take pictures of the sneaux. Yes sneaux in Lafayette. Looks like several inches and it is still comeing down. The last time we saw sneaux in Lafayette was in the early to mid '70's. We are all in shock and it is uterly beautiful.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Thursday, December 11, 2008 at 06:22:33 (MST)
O.P. must have 'fixed' day 2 because it opened for me! That's the one with the renewing of their vows for their 50th!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Thursday, December 11, 2008 at 04:26:34 (MST)
Gerald, I couldn't view "Day 2" either. My gosh, what a beautiful ship, huh?
Who is the other girl with Rickey, I know one is Jackie, but is the other Rosemary?
Doris
USA - Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 15:12:04 (MST)
Just viewed "day 1" of the Fr. Blessing cruise on O.P.'s web site. "Day 2" would not come up. Don't know why. O.P. has a new hat and Rickey seems to be enjoying himself.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 14:44:01 (MST)
Back from Ochsner’s today. I have a new pacemaker. Two days notice. I hope that this one works. It huts like hell. Returned to Larose and there I no hot water. They had to take the heater out so that the could put in the floors. I am off to Grand Isle tomorrow where everything works.
J. J. Erny
USA - Tuesday, December 09, 2008 at 17:30:41 (MST)
A couple of weeks ago an acting group from here in the Woodlands put on "The Sound of Music". It was fantastic. The show started with the nuns coming down the isles with candles singing greagorium chant. It was beautiful. I was really impressed with the local talent here. This was the first time I have gone to any production, but I plan to go back. They usually have 3 or 4 productions a year. I put my first present under the tree just a while ago and Cheree immediately pulled the paper off of the box. If I could catch her I would spank her good. She is faster than lightning. I love her to death, but she can be so bad sometimes. Just like our children!!!
Doris
USA - Monday, December 08, 2008 at 16:17:38 (MST)
Doris, went hear a choral concert by Chorale Acadian choir. They sang at St. John's and at the beginning
came down the isle singing and holding candles..........it was very impressive. There is just something
about a choral group at this time of year. You know Mama sang in St. Mary's choir for 17 years.
Hope the "cruise gang" are having a great time.
Christmas is coming fast. We didn't pull names this year. We decided to spend the money on
children who were not getting anything for Christmas. We did four little girls through the
Angel tree (Salvation Army) It was such fun buying for them. The only other gifts I had to buy were
for the 5 grandkids. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!!!!!!!
Patsy Franques
USA - Monday, December 08, 2008 at 14:39:33 (MST)
Ops looks like the bowls have passed over the Cajuns again. Oh well there's always next year.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Monday, December 08, 2008 at 06:35:32 (MST)
I can barely remember Midnight Mass, but have fond memories of singing. Father Vincent started training us and Kenny Bowen finished us off. They were both excellent teachers. It was so enjoyable to sing publically and watch the faces of the people light up.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Sunday, December 07, 2008 at 17:02:36 (MST)
I just came from our Christmas Choir Concert. It was very good. Gerald, while listening to them sing "O Holy Night", I remembered mid-night mass many years ago when the boys choir from Cathedral would come down the middle isle with candles, in your altar boy gowns, singing O'Holy Night. I remember how impressive it was. Do you remember how packed the Cathedral was for Midnight mass? I wonder if it still is. It has been a long time since I have been to midnight mass. When in Lake Charles I sang in a choir that would sing at the 7:00 P.M. mass Christmas Eve. And we lived in Lake Charles for 25 years. Since we are here we have been going to the Children's mass at 3:00 on Christmas Eve to bring our little ones. I keep thinking about what our friends are doing on the ship. Hope they will have a great time.
Doris
USA - Sunday, December 07, 2008 at 16:21:11 (MST)
Looks like the Tigers are going to Atlanta to play Georgia Tech., ULL to Houston to play Rice and we all know how much a Ragin Cajun likes to eat rice. The Saints did well today but I'am afraid too little too late. I hope I'm wrong. Well wishes to all those Cruiseing Cajuns. I hope the weather is warmer over there?
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Sunday, December 07, 2008 at 15:18:37 (MST)
Well away we go and we are on our way on our cruise. Wish more you could have made it. It would be more fun with a lot more. Next year we have two cruises planned. First in July Fr. Blessisng is going to Alaska and in September we are going up to New England and Halifax. We are going to see the leaf changes and visit Boston and Portland Main and Bar Habor and St. John on the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick and then on to Halifax and then back to Boston. It's six day trip. If anyone is insterested let me know and I will give you all the particulars. Have a great day.
Rickey
Rickey
USA - Sunday, December 07, 2008 at 07:06:32 (MST)
Brenda, I tried the internet address you gave but no elephants came up. Are you sure it is the right one? Bon Voyage, you guys I will be thinking of you this coming week, wishing I were there.
Doris
USA - Saturday, December 06, 2008 at 19:55:30 (MST)
Wisdom found only in Judges!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Saturday, December 06, 2008 at 13:40:11 (MST)
For a man the secret of a long marriage is not to find a woman that you can live with; but to find one that you can not live without. cong.
J. J. Erny
USA - Saturday, December 06, 2008 at 06:36:17 (MST)
HAPPY 50TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY, HENRIETTA AND PAUL! Write and tell us about your celebration. It sounds lovely!
Brenda
USA - Friday, December 05, 2008 at 19:42:57 (MST)
Sue, I spoke to my friend who just returned from a cruise like ours. He said, except for at night when he liked to dress up, he wore shorts and tees the whole time. That sounds warm to me. Did any of you see the elephant site I put on here?
Brenda
USA - Friday, December 05, 2008 at 12:26:09 (MST)
We leave from Holy Cross Church Sunday after the 9 am mass. There will be two busses waiting. I am so excited!!! My costumes are finished,(almost), and it's time to relax. Sure hope the weather is warm down there. This is my first cruise so everything will be wonderful.
Suzanne
USA - Thursday, December 04, 2008 at 19:22:10 (MST)
Is tomorrow the cruise take-off for you guys?
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Thursday, December 04, 2008 at 16:38:51 (MST)
You have got to see this site: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He7Ge7Sogrk.
You wouldn't believe it unless you see it for yourself!
Brenda
USA - Thursday, December 04, 2008 at 13:09:12 (MST)
The only problem with that JJ, is that if all 'dishonest' contractors were killed, there would be NO ONE left to do the work! How can you tell a 'dishonest contracor?', if his lips are moving!!!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Thursday, December 04, 2008 at 06:09:32 (MST)
We are still repairing the Gustav damage to the Larose house. We need the fence man, the roof man and permit inspector. The pool looks like mud bath even after 20 visits from the pool people. The floor people are a work in progress. I know it is against the law to kill contractors; but Marshal is it a sin ?
J. J. Erny
USA - Wednesday, December 03, 2008 at 16:56:40 (MST)
Henrietta, when and where is the funeral?
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, December 02, 2008 at 07:34:55 (MST)
Classmate Cile Vinson Martin's mother passed away last week. Thelma Vinson, age 94, was a nice, very alert and youthful lady whom I met this year at Cile's, while attending a Wildtree health foods party presented by Denise, June Gaudin Concienne's daughter. Mrs. Vinson's grandson Devin is an excellent Aveda hairstylist here in Lafayette. Please keep Mrs. Vinson in your prayers.
Henrietta
USA - Monday, December 01, 2008 at 16:25:19 (MST)
J.J., my Grandmother said "brothers and sisters fight so that they won't marry each other". Sounds like the ultimate old wives' tale. Rickey, I spoke to a friend of mine today who went on the same cruise that we're taking and she said that she almost froze, Everyone had said how warm it was going to be, but the temperature was the same down there as she had left in Baton Rouge. She said that she wore the same thing that she had worn onto the ship the whole time. That probably won't happen again.
Brenda
USA - Monday, December 01, 2008 at 10:54:14 (MST)
Took four grand children to dc for the Thanksgiving week. It was like herding cats, that fight.
J. J. Erny
USA - Monday, December 01, 2008 at 08:23:07 (MST)
Brenda, I have noticed that right after a frost, like we had last week-end the colors of the trees are beautiful. I was noticing them this week over here also. We have, what they call here, "Texas Ash" trees that turn a golden color, so pretty. Almost as pretty as the Aspen trees in Arizona last year. We also have "Red Oaks" that are, of course, red this time of the year. I was telling my grandson the other day that Jackie Jack Frost came and painted the trees all these pretty colors. I wish you would've seen the look on his face. Like "Who in the World is Jackie Jack Frost?". We have one of those Oak trees in our front yard, of course after they turn, they also start to fall. You cannot see the grass, it is covered with leaves. Charles was tired of racking, I told him just to wait until they have all fallen. Anyway I think it is kind of pretty with the leaves on the ground.
Doris
USA - Sunday, November 30, 2008 at 07:37:55 (MST)
No one has to go up North to see the gorgeous fall colors in the trees this year. There are some spectacular colors here and they are probably also in Lafayette or wherever you are down South. Maybe one of you can explain what is different this year.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, November 29, 2008 at 11:46:12 (MST)
Great news Larry and Camille. We will continue to have Miles in our prayers.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Friday, November 28, 2008 at 13:28:57 (MST)
WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL NEWS, LARRY AND CAMILLE! Congratulations to you, O.P and Shirley!
Brenda
USA - Friday, November 28, 2008 at 07:34:56 (MST)
Larry, so glad to hear your son is doing so well. Our prayers are still with him.
Doris
USA - Friday, November 28, 2008 at 07:06:30 (MST)
HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all of you. It was a "Special Thanksgiving" for the Miller family.Tuesday of this past week we had an evaluation meeting with the therapy staff(he is still in rehab)at LMGC at 1:30. Camille and I went early to visit with him before the meeting. Low and behold there was and empty tray of food that he had eaten from. What a surprise to to us to see this. He was given a "swallowing" test that morning and had passed with "flying colors". That was the first solid food he had had since October 2nd. We proceeded to the meeting and was told by staff that everything was going well and that he could go home next Tuesday. He still will need therapy,but as an out patient. Both families visited
with him through
out the day which he enjoyed very much.
A very special"THANKS" TO all of you who kept Myles in your prayers. It is the prayers of all of you,family,friends, and others that made this recovery so quick.He is doing great but,still has a long way to go. With you continued prayers, we know he will be back to normal soon (as per the doctors).
Again THANKS
LARRY & CAMILLE
Larry & Camille Miller
USA - Thursday, November 27, 2008 at 19:14:06 (MST)
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you out there. We are so thankful for all the things God has given us. We are indeed very fortunate. Happy Anniversary to O.P. and Shirely. Are we the only two from our class, who have celebrated our 50th anniversary
Doris
USA - Thursday, November 27, 2008 at 16:19:08 (MST)
HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all of you! Here in Louisiana and the U.S.A. we can't even begin to realize how fortunate we are and why so many millions of people are trying desperately to come to this land of liberty and promise. God grant us the wisdom to make the choices that He would have us make for all of His children. God bless you.
Brenda
USA - Thursday, November 27, 2008 at 09:55:33 (MST)
Everyone OP and Shirley have a extra thing to be Happy for. Today is there 50th wedding anniversary. They are having the day at his son David and Lucia's house. It doesn't seem like 50 years since the night we took him out on his batchlor party. Boy was that a night.
Rickey
USA - Wednesday, November 26, 2008 at 22:51:37 (MST)
Here's wishing a very HAPPY THANKGIVINGS to all of you. I know we will all eat too much and be full of thanksgiving for all that we have. May you have the full family with you. Again "HAPPY THANKSGIVING" .
Rickey
USA - Wednesday, November 26, 2008 at 21:29:00 (MST)
Yes Betty is surely missed. I'm so happy I had the chance to view her body and be with her husband and daughter the first day of her wake. She and I communicated more the last year of her life, thanks to this website, than we communicated when we were in H.S. She is remembered daily in my mass intentions. RIP
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at 05:36:46 (MST)
Brenda, yes I miss Betty more than you will ever know. It will be a year since her death on Dec. 21st.
Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving. My cornbread dressing is in the oven as we speak.
To all who are going on the cruise.......HAPPY SAILING!
Patsy Frqnques
USA - Monday, November 24, 2008 at 13:12:27 (MST)
Marshall, you are one well-educated priest! Do you all miss Betty as much as I do? When I think of all of the remarks she would be making on this web site and all of the information and opinions she would be adding...well, I just miss her!
Brenda
USA - Monday, November 24, 2008 at 07:45:50 (MST)
You have not heard from me Rickey because I did not graduate from UL,SLI,USL! Right after High School I went to St. Mary's in KY; then got my Masters in History from Notre Dame in New Orleans. I only took courses at UL I needed to get my LA teaching certificate...but took most of my Education courses from Loyola in N.O. at summer sessions; then attended UT in Knowxville; UCLA; USC in L.A. and Northridge CA where I got my Masters in Administration and Supervision of Special Education in the Area of the Deaf. I was ordained in '63 and teaching at Mt. Carmel and Vermilion Catholic in Abbeville, then started working for the deaf full time in '69, after getting me degree in deaf education.
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Monday, November 24, 2008 at 04:30:36 (MST)
Gerald, no you are not on the list, neither is Harvey.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
WOODBRIDGE, VA USA - Sunday, November 23, 2008 at 17:34:49 (MST)
Harvey is on your list, right? Am I on the list?
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Sunday, November 23, 2008 at 15:25:15 (MST)
Brenda, that was a dumb assumption I made about you being married in college. I should have realized that the list they gave me had been updated by the Alumni Association since we graduated. duh... to me. Gerald, Daniel is not on the '59 list they gave me. So I don't know when he graduated.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Woodbridge, VA USA - Sunday, November 23, 2008 at 11:48:06 (MST)
Just went through the '59 S.L.I. graduates pictures and here are the one's I recalled were in our High School classes. Gayle Arceneaux, Robert Arceneaux, Janet DeClouet, Oliver Ditch, Del Rita Foreman, Louis Geric, Marie Minette Horaist, Brenda Meaux, John Ray Mouton and myself. I might have missed someone or the school did not publish all the graduates like Harvey and maybe Daniel.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Sunday, November 23, 2008 at 09:31:56 (MST)
O.P., I wasn't married before I graduated in 1959. I didn't even know John at the time. When I moved to Baton Rouge,I met him when he became my dentist. We were married in July of 1961. Martha said that we shouldn't miss our 50th anniversary at (SLI)because she enjoyed hers so much. They do some very special things for the graduates,as I guess Shirley knows.
Brenda
USA - Sunday, November 23, 2008 at 06:34:13 (MST)
Brenda, The reason I was asking you about when you "graduated" is that I'm helping the UL Alumni Association publicize the 50 year, "Golden Anniversary Reunion" next May, for the class of '59. I got tapped for that task when Shirley had hers this past May. I volunteered to help them get in touch with folks. I have their list and I had missed your name on the list. I didn't know that you were married before Graduation, like Shirley & I. I did find Brenda M. Atkinson on the list. I see they don't have your email address listed. The tentative dates for the Reunion are May 21-23, 2009. So keep those dates open. You can see Shirley's 50th class reunion photo on our web site at: http://opditch.com. Any of you who wore the cap and gown in May of '59, please contact me. I may be missing some of you ladies, if you appear on the list with your married name, instead of your maiden name.
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Woodbridge, VA USA - Sunday, November 23, 2008 at 05:10:12 (MST)
Looks like LSU didn't do too well last night. I wonder which bowl they will attend. There defense is horrible. With all the money that they pay the coaches seems like they could hire someone good. Sue did you go to the game last night? I saw Yvonne at Mass yesterday afternoon and I figured that you were sitting in the stands at LSU stadium.
Ya'll should see Jackie Mequet. She had the same surgery that I did and she has lost a whole lot of weight. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw her.
Back to football. The Cajuns didn't do well either last night, of course we are used to them losing. They are like the Saints. I think the football coach had better start putting his affairs in order. His contract is up and I will be curious to see if they renew it again this year. Of course they have had a lot of injuries this year.
Marshall we haven't heard from you lately.
Rickey
USA - Sunday, November 23, 2008 at 04:36:12 (MST)
Just retrived my '59 and '60 S.L.I. yearbooks and noticed that Harvey does not appear as a graduate in either one. To my surprise I am in both, go figure. When Harvey returns from Orlando I will discuss this with him.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 12:08:53 (MST)
In those days S.L.I. graduation was always in May. Everyone dreaded going to a no air conditioned Blackam Colosseum with a cap and gown. I felt very fortunate to have finished in Jan. '60 and had to report to active duty in Montogomery Ala. in March and miss all that fun. I believe Harvey told me that he finished at mid semester also. Not sure what year. Anyone else has any college graduation stories?
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 11:46:08 (MST)
o.P, I did graduate in January of 1959. That means I completed my course work, but we didn't go through the graduation ceremony until May, 1959. Did they have a graduation ceremony in January?
Brenda
USA - Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 10:26:46 (MST)
Hey you guys and gals. Because of all the people I booked on the coming cruise Kernit Duhon of the Travel Machine has made me a Travel Machine booking agent. So if anyone plans a vacation I would appreciate it if you would appreciate you calling me. At least this way you would know who you are dealing with and have personal attention. I think the next cruise next summer will be Alaska. It will be a 14 day tour but you can make it a shorter tour. You can cut the tour with the cruise only or go on a land tour from Fairbanks Alaska to Anchorage by train. Please let me know if any of you are insterested. Thanks
Rickey
USA - Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 08:26:54 (MST)
Brenda, Did you graduate with the SLI class of '59. I see your photo is in the yearbook for 59 with us Graduating Seniors, but so is Gerald's. And we know he didn't graduate until Jan '60. When did you graduate?
O. P. <opditch@gmail.com>
USA - Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 07:58:16 (MST)
Pretty soon we will be getting Christmas cards with our grandchildren's pictures on them. Maybe O.P. can open a file for them, if we send them to him.
I guess we'll also have cruise pictures to put on this site.
Brenda
USA - Friday, November 21, 2008 at 07:57:10 (MST)
Well, Rickey, Betty came to Mt Carmel for a short time. She married Bobby Blassingame at a very early age, like 15, I think. I saw her too about ten years ago at a golf tournament dance. She certainly did look the same. That same cute smile. She was a couple of year younger than us.
Doris
USA - Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 12:44:36 (MST)
Winnie Mae is related to me. She is my first cousin. I don't see her at Holy Cross so she must go to Mass on Sunday. Winnie and I share the same Aunt. Funny thing happened to me the other day. We have some new neighbors and I went out to meet them and low and behold she is Betty Monteleon's daughter. She is now Mrs. Don Claxton. It truly is a small world. I did get to talk to Betty the other day and she still looks the same. Did she go to Mt. Carmel with you girls? On another subject it sure has been beautiful lately.
Rickey
USA - Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 07:55:06 (MST)
I didn't know she was living in Lafayette! I will have to look her up. I know she had moved to New Orleans to go to college and never came back. She married a guy from there. Her married name is Duhe. Unless she is remarried in those 50 something years.
Doris
USA - Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 06:35:32 (MST)
Right Doris. I really butchered her name. I see her all the time at Church. I bet she does not remember that event/non-event.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 14:36:24 (MST)
Gerald, that was Winnie Mae Monteleon. Who is Pete's cousin. Winnie and I grew up together. We were neighbors. I have pictures of us when we were three years old.
Doris
USA - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 06:09:34 (MST)
Thanks Rickey. Your memory is awsome. As I read your postings something occured to me about my first kiss. O.P. and I were attending a party at his house for his sister Pat. She was one year older. There were several Mount Carmel girls there and they decided to play spin the bottle. Well low and behold Wennie Maye Melancon and I ended up on the front porch. I don't recall how old we were but I had to stand on the porch swing to kiss her. I will never forget that kiss. Do we have any other first kiss stories?
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Monday, November 17, 2008 at 17:59:40 (MST)
Gerald the name of the owners were Buck and Lorraine Manceaux. I spent a lot of time there. I use to wash dishes and made a few bucks. The diner was an old passenger railroad car. It was silver so the name silver diner was used. Fireproof is a great movie. I didn't see it but Barbara went and said so, so it must be good. I heard from Carmoron Mitchell the star and he used to play as a child in a sitcom on tv. He told his real wife that he would not ever kiss another woman so in the movie when he was to kiss his ''wife'' is real wife came in for the shot. The did it in a dark place and she stood in for the play wife. For those of you who are going on the cruise there are only 19 days before we sail. Everyone take care.
Rickey
USA - Sunday, November 16, 2008 at 23:29:31 (MST)
Such a cute kid, a fashionable photo of Doris's Madelyn. This weekend, Paul & I saw another good movie, Fireproof. Refreshingly, a good story with Christian values. This movie would also be great for upper level students, those pre-nuptial classes we took and for marriage encounter groups. Saw lots of men in the filled theater, so it's not necessarily a chick flick.
Henrietta
USA - Sunday, November 16, 2008 at 20:36:19 (MST)
Gerald, actually, Madelyn is our second great grandbaby. Pam's oldest who is a boy, the same age as Jared, has a son, Cole. Today was such a beautiful day I took my three little grandson's to the park to play along with Cheree. They all had soooo much fun!! Cheree included. There were so many people. So many families with children and their dogs. Then around 2:30 a band started setting up under a pavillion and started playing. People were laying on the ground in the sun, teenagers were playing football on the lawn, little kids playing on the play equipment and grandmas and grandpas sitting watching and enjoying it all. It reminded me of Serat's painting "Central Park" (I think that is what it is called. When we left there, we went to an ice cream parlor for ice cream. Like you always say,Gerald, "Life is Good". Especially when you have young children and puppy dogs around you to love.
Doris
USA - Sunday, November 16, 2008 at 17:12:34 (MST)
Gerald, actually, Madelyn is our second great grandbaby. Pam's oldest who is a boy, the same age as Jared, has a son, Cole. Today was such a beautiful day I took my three little grandson's to the park to play along with Cheree. They all had soooo much fun!! Cheree included. There were so many people. So many families with children and their dogs. Then around 2:30 a band started setting up under a pavillion and started playing. People were laying on the ground in the sun, teenagers were playing football on the lawn, little kids playing on the play equipment and grandmas and grandpas sitting watching and enjoying it all. It reminded me of Serat's picture of "Central Park". When we left there, we went to an ice cream parlor for ice cream. Like you always say,Gerald, "Life is Good". Especially when you have young children and puppy dogs around you to love.
Doris
USA - Sunday, November 16, 2008 at 17:10:03 (MST)
Received the following from someone today and wanted to share it with you;
"Love often, laugh a lot, make gratitude your daily companion, take
good care of yourself, catch people doing something right, and find
something to bless in the mess."
Brenda
USA - Sunday, November 16, 2008 at 13:54:07 (MST)
Wow. Pam's grandchild! I can still remember what great babysitters your daughters were. We had boys first and they had mostly boys first also, so our great grandchildren are several years away. Brenda, I have a faint recollection of that Silver Diner. Seems to me it was kind of portable and small? It was located around the corner from my house on Stewart St. I don't remember ever eating there however. Does anyone remember who owned it? I know Rickey has some memories about it.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Sunday, November 16, 2008 at 12:28:39 (MST)
Gerald, Madelyn is Pam's grandbaby. Can you imagine!! The teenager who use to babysit for you is a grandmother. She is Pam's daughter, Jenni's, baby.
Doris
USA - Sunday, November 16, 2008 at 07:40:43 (MST)
John and I were in Lafayette today and ate lunch at Judice Inn. The waiter said that it was a slow day and yet, we waited 45 minutes for my hamburger fue to the crowd. The taste of that hamburger brought me back to my very first hamburger that I remember, which was at the Silver Diner, across from Mary Elizabeth's and Rickey's houses on Johnston.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, November 15, 2008 at 16:05:54 (MST)
Precious picture, Doris!
Brenda
USA - Friday, November 14, 2008 at 18:41:48 (MST)
What a cutie pie Madlyn is Doris. Whome does she come from?
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Friday, November 14, 2008 at 15:57:20 (MST)
Brenda, Pat and I have a Priest friend that can only see anything bigger than the big E on an eye chart. He is 83 and lives alone. We are encourageing him to go to Consolata (sp) Nursing Home in New Iberia. There are several Priest there that he knows and one is going to be saying Mass every day. I have never been there but hear only good things about it. If you call they could probably fill you in with the details for your Priest.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Thursday, November 13, 2008 at 10:17:34 (MST)
A couple of weeks ago, I saw a priest after Mass who has recently lost his sight from macula degeneration. I asked him if he ever needed a ride to go any place and he said he'd call me. He has asked me to keep an eye out for an apartment for him and I have brought him to see several. Can you imagine what courage it will take for him to move into a new place and try to walk to resturants or wherever?? I really don't know how they do it, but he is anxious to move on his own. He went to Lafayette for eight months to learn to live as a blind man. I've never heard of that place. Keep him in your prayers!
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 17:19:35 (MST)
Rickey;
Peter is Gloria Callais's son a relative of Suzanne's. They are from Lafouche and he was my children's friend. He built one of the largest boat companie south Louisiana. He was a fine young man.
Lee will be good when he matures.
J.J.
USA - Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at 10:37:46 (MST)
J.j. who is Petter? I don't think I have ever heard of him. Maybe I'm just gettiong old. Seems like everybody else has know him because no one else has written and asked. I guess things are going well for you and Lita. Is you daughter still doing well? I agree the Tigers could and better get an other QB is they don't they are going to lose a whole lot of games. Another one they ought get rid of is LaFell. He can't catch a ball. I would like to know how many he has dropped during the season that was right in his hands.
Rickey
USA - Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at 06:40:07 (MST)
Petter died of heart failue on the front porch of his huntting lodge in Mississippi. He went to sleep on the front porch and Jude found him dead when he went out to fix breakfast. He sufferd from a bad heart for several years. L. S. U. needs another quarterback.
J. J.
USA - Sunday, November 09, 2008 at 05:50:07 (MST)
Petter died of heart failue on the front porch of his huntting lodge in Mississippi. He went to sleep on the front porch and Jude found him dead when he went out to fix breakfast. He sufferd from a bad heart for several years. L. S. U. needs another quarterback.
J. J.
USA - Sunday, November 09, 2008 at 05:49:57 (MST)
LSU played a good game, but # 1 Alabama had a better second half. I was hoping no one would Boo Coach Sabin, but you can't reach everyone.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, November 08, 2008 at 18:39:35 (MST)
Just received the Acadiana Catholic and it contains a "Looking Back" picture taken in 1949 of the dedication of Immaculata Seminary. Father Edwards and others officiated. Their web site is www.dol-louisiana.org. if you are interested. Can you believe we were in the 8th grade.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Friday, November 07, 2008 at 15:44:31 (MST)
JJ, I don't think my first message went through. Please let me know about Gloria's son. Thanks!
Suzanne <suzdbernard@cox.net>
USA - Friday, November 07, 2008 at 11:56:48 (MST)
Larry, slow progress is certain and sure progress. Thank God for good doctors!
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, November 04, 2008 at 06:12:26 (MST)
"very optimistic" are two encourageing words Larry. Hope his condition continues to improve, he will be in our prayers. Cecile, Donalds sister, has her obituariey in todays Daily. Just two remain of a family of ten. May she rest in peace.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Monday, November 03, 2008 at 05:46:50 (MST)
Myles returned from Little Rock this past Wed. He is in LGMC on the ninth floor.He still cannot swallow or speak but is fully aware of what is going on around him.It will be a long haul,but we are very optimistic that he will fully recover.
Larry Miller
USA - Sunday, November 02, 2008 at 18:45:13 (MST)
I didn't realize that that is where Betty is buried. My Mom and Dad and Charles' Mom and Dad are buried there and we will be buried there, also. It is getting to be a popular place. I am glad to know LSU won last night. We tried to get it on T.V. but it wasn't brodcast over here in TX.
Doris
USA - Sunday, November 02, 2008 at 17:03:20 (MST)
While out this weekend bringing All Saints' Day flowers and visiting Bertrand and Boriskie family plots at St. John's and Calvary cemeteries, we passed by Betty Sunday's well-marked gravesite on the path leading to the side street at Calvary. Said a prayer for her -- can you believe it's been almost a year?
Henrietta
USA - Sunday, November 02, 2008 at 11:31:51 (MST)
L.S.U. Won; but the struggled in the 1st half.
J. J. Erny
USA - Sunday, November 02, 2008 at 08:55:33 (MST)
Hello everybody. How did the LSU Tigers come out. I'm sure they won but you never know. My oldest son and his wife went to the game and he called me and asked me "if you look for me we or on the 3rd row from the top under the third cloud from the left." I told them the teams must look like they are about one inch tall and he said not that big. They decided that they would go down for no reason. Larry how is your son doing? That's the only way we can get you to write on the class web page. Brenda I saw on the list of e-mails that Carla sends she has you listed as Mary Atkinson. What's up? That must must be you front name and that is the way its on your passport. USL did good last night. I don't know what we are going to do without Fenroy and Desormeaux.. Hopefully this is the beginning of something that will last. Brenda Carla told me that she will hold the meeting about a week to 10 days before the trip. Well everone take care. Sorry to hear about Donald's sister. I didn't even know he had one.
Ric key
USA - Sunday, November 02, 2008 at 07:34:56 (MST)
You got it Gerald. Please tell Donald if you see him, that I will offer my mass tomorrow for the peaceful repose of her soul...must be a good omen...All Souls day rarely falls on Sunday!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Saturday, November 01, 2008 at 12:50:30 (MST)
I wish I had better news on All Saints Day. Cecile, Donald Deshotels youngest sister who lives in Calfornia passed today. She was in Pat's Class, 1958. There will be an obituary and a service in Lafayette. Check the Daily for details. Marshall please say a Mass for her. Thanks.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Saturday, November 01, 2008 at 10:53:34 (MST)
HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE !!!!!!
Doris
USA - Friday, October 31, 2008 at 15:09:51 (MST)
Happy Birthday Pat a day late.
Doris
USA - Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 05:22:08 (MST)
HAPPPY BIRTHDAY, PAT! Is this your 50th?
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 18:39:41 (MST)
Happy birthday Pat Reaux. We all love you very much.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 09:05:45 (MST)
Rickey I guess I am having problems with my e.mail. I get an error saying that they do not accept my password...I think Comcast is playing with their system. I will be in Lafayette from Dec. 22nd till the 3rd of Jan.
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 16:39:24 (MST)
Marshall, is your e-mail working? I wrote to you twice and have not received an answer. I wrote to you wanting to know when you were coming for Christmas and if we can get together. I won't be in town from Dec. 7 to the 15. For you of you who are going on the cruise we have only 39 days and counting.
Rickey
USA - Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 08:32:46 (MST)
No, J.J., it bees an A movie.
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 06:12:03 (MST)
Brenda, is this movie, The secret lives of Bees, is it a B movie ?
J. J.
USA - Monday, October 27, 2008 at 08:05:29 (MST)
Brenda, this movie "The secret Lives of Bees", Is it a B Movie ?
J.J.
USA - Monday, October 27, 2008 at 08:03:43 (MST)
Gerald you might just have a second career as a writer!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Monday, October 27, 2008 at 04:46:43 (MST)
LSU is overated, the Saints have a cool Brees and ULL is underated.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Sunday, October 26, 2008 at 14:30:58 (MST)
And along came Tulane ????
J.J.
USA - Sunday, October 26, 2008 at 14:07:43 (MST)
LSU???? This is getting to be a habit!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Saturday, October 25, 2008 at 15:02:00 (MST)
Brenda, you were right, the movie was great. I am so glad I went to see it.
Doris
USA - Wednesday, October 22, 2008 at 16:08:30 (MST)
Brenda, I am glad you mentioned "The Secret Lives of Bees" as I am going with a friend this afternoon. I too, read the book. I am glad the movie is like the book. I hate it when they change things all around in movies.
Doris
USA - Wednesday, October 22, 2008 at 08:47:51 (MST)
Yes, Patsy and Doris, John and I were talking today about how good our lives are now. We have so much to be thankful for. Suzanne, you recommended "The Secret Lives of Bees" some time ago and I read it. Today we went to see the movie and it was just like the book, very good. If you hadn't recommended it, I wouldn't have even noticed the movie and there were only two other people in the theater.
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 19:38:02 (MST)
Yes Doris it is great to be communicating after 50 years. I love the following saying (author unknown)
"When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive: to breathe, to think, to
enjoy, to love."
PatsyFranques
USA - Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 11:41:27 (MST)
You know, I was just thinking how WONDERFUL it is for us after 50 years to be able to communicate with each other like this. It sure does give me a WARM GLOW. So glad to hear you are feeling better J.J.
Doris
USA - Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 15:54:17 (MST)
Yes, I remember McCrory's and Woolsworth there was also a Mongan and Lindsay's. If you couldn't find something at one you surely would find it at one of the other stores. I remember buying those Philipine hand made baby dresses for Pam and Pennye when they were babies at Morgan and Lindsay's. They also had a lunch counter. My mother use to love their "Boiled Dinners" which consisted of boiled veggies with a ham bone. You are so right Patsy. Remember we use to run to the dime stores on our One hour lunch break when we were in high school. To get a lipstick or whatever? Nice memories!!! Today is Jeanette's birthday, by the way. I had forgotten about it , but just happen to call her this afternoon and Lynette was there and she told me they were celebrating her Mom's birthday. I guess God made me call my old friend on her day!!!
Doris
USA - Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 15:51:14 (MST)
I do remember McCrory's and Woolworth's. I had forgotten where they were located on Jefferson. Patsy, hearing about that dime store in Rayne makes me want to take a trip to see it. After I was gone from lafayette for many years, I started remembering Hyman's Department store and all the memories it held. I was hoping it was still just the same and one day, while in Lafayette, I went by there and it was still the same. Well, changed from my childhood. They used to have those jars that went up to the second floor with money in them to get change or whatever. I was really sorry when Hyman's closed it's doors as it really closed a door on my past. Is San Souci Book Store still open?
Brenda
USA - Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 08:57:25 (MST)
J.J., glad to hear you are ok. I remember McCrory's dime store. They had a large lunch counter in
the center of the store. We would go there for Cherry cokes . Lafayette was so great in those days........
we could walk all over town (and take the bus) and our parents didn't seem to be worried about us.
Yes, the Dollar Stores have taken the place of the Dime Stores, but if you want to shop at a real
Dime Store, there is still one in Rayne. I feel like I am back in time when I go there. Haven't been
there in a couple of years-----hope it is still there.
Patsy Franques
USA - Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 07:43:08 (MST)
Brenda, don't you remember McCrory's, at the bend on Jefferson Street? And wasn't there a Woolsworth also? Dime stores shopping sounds like a good idea during this money-crunching time. Lafayette has beaucoup Dollar Stores, with good bargains, but we rarely visit. Hope everyone is enjoying this Saturday's beautiful weather.
Henrietta
USA - Saturday, October 18, 2008 at 14:44:22 (MST)
Wonderful news, J.J.! With this beautiful fall weather, I have been busy today, both indoors and out. For some reason, I have been thinking about the old dime stores. I can't remember where any of them were in Lafayette when we were growning up, but there was one near our house here in Baton Rouge while my children were young. I think the Dollar stores are the equal to those dime stores. I liked our old ones better.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, October 18, 2008 at 11:49:00 (MST)
out of the hospital today. I am O. K.
J. J.
j. j. <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
Larose, La USA - Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 19:23:57 (MST)
Beautiful site Brenda! Very well done!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 16:40:33 (MST)
Check out this video: http://www.maximumreferrals.com/bridge
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 11:28:55 (MST)
Larry, I think you can be very encouraged! Our son had a benign hemangioma in his left temporal lobe and it was removed in a 9 hour surgery at USC Medical Center in Ca. They said, at the time, that he would have speech impairment and trouble walking. When he recovered, he had NO speech problems and NO trouble walking! He did have short-term memory problems, but the brain heals itself in seven years and Johnny is living proof of that. He has a great life and, were it not for his scar,you wouldn't know anything ever happened to him. I know your son will have the same results.
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 13:47:00 (MST)
No Rickey,he is not the umpire. He is doing better but still cannot keep his eyes open. He responds to all commands.It will be a slow and long process.
Larry
USA - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 12:37:25 (MST)
As a matter of fact, Rickey, I have been having trouble accessing the CC website since we attached a Skype camera on my computer. That's another story! What I wanted to ask is if any of you have discovered the t.v. series "Mad Men"? It is based in the 60's and is very accurate to one echelon of people! The morals of the men depicted and the role of women then is something else. You really have to see it from the beginning of the first season to see who's who. It's at Block Buster, the library and sometimes on HBO On Demand. Everyone smokes in their homes, at their desks, at the movies almost constantly. Let me know if any of you are watching it. Good luck, J.J.
Brenda
USA - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 07:36:14 (MST)
JJ I hope your surgury goes well tomorrow. Ask Lita to let me know when it is all over and doing well. You have had a tough time with your health lately. I know the class will be giving you all of our prayers.
Brenda I'm glad you took over from Betty on the class web page. You give us all something to look at and find out what's going on with everybody. I know I am not very good at posting on the web site but I will try to do better.
Larry, how is your son. I know you look at the web page everyday. Is that the baseball umpire? Maybe this year we can see a some game played.
Marshall, you have been keeping up with us and I kmow you will be praying for JJ.
Well that's all from here and I'll stay in touch from now on.
Rickey
USA - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 06:55:39 (MST)
Bad night ! Nightmare!
J. J. <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
larose, La USA - Monday, October 13, 2008 at 08:47:11 (MST)
Obviously FL had a good night and LSU had a bad night...so only time will tell how good or bad they really are!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Sunday, October 12, 2008 at 17:33:32 (MST)
The NCAA national champ was decided by the outcome of this game for the last two years. Ole Miss has put a kink in that theory.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Sunday, October 12, 2008 at 09:10:34 (MST)
Yes; but it is easy to be beaten an drowned in the swamp.
J. J. <Judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
larose, La USA - Saturday, October 11, 2008 at 20:46:38 (MST)
It's tough to win in the SWAMP!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Saturday, October 11, 2008 at 19:45:44 (MST)
I am alive and well. I have been in Mo. Lita and I went to her class reunion. They had a fish frie. It was a disaster. The speared a very boney something called a chub. They fried it in lard without seasoning. When it got a little cold the lard hardened and the fish was coated with white congealed lard. Next time we will bring our own fish, the seasoning, peanut oil and we have volunteered to cook the fish. Lita took me to Branson as a present. After three delays I go into Ochsner’s on Wednesday so that they can insert a monitoring device into my chest. Should be simple, safe and painful.
J. J. Erny <judgeerny@mobiletel.com>
Larose, La USA - Friday, October 10, 2008 at 19:40:55 (MST)
Received an email, asking to publish the following info:
Cathedral-CarmelFoundation is having a golf tournament on Monday, Oct. 20th, at Oakbourne Country Club in Lafayette. They need 4 more teams to reach their goal of 30 TEAMS. Deadline for sponsorships is this Friday, October 10th. Registration is open until all teams are filled. Please spread the word and ask your friends and families to help support our school. Food, compliments of Breaux’s Mart, Oge’s Rent-All, Gene Lognion, Don’s Specialty Meats, Hebert’s and Antlers, with cold beverages provided by Acadiana Bottling & Schilling Distributing Co. Great door prizes from local restaurants, coffee shops and golf pros! ContactSarah A. Hyde
Foundation/Development Director
Cathedral-Carmel School
337-261-9484 (ext. 241)
FAX 337-261-9485
Henrietta
USA - Wednesday, October 08, 2008 at 18:42:58 (MST)
Well, our poor little puppy dog will have her surgery on her knee next Tues. The bad part is we will have to keep her from running and playing for FOUR WEEKS. I guess it is possible. But I know she will think we are punishing her.
Doris
USA - Wednesday, October 08, 2008 at 15:46:23 (MST)
Happy Belated Birthday, O.P. I forgot that you share the same birthday as my grandson, Nick. Sept. 29. Right? I also am so happy for you Rickey. Charles sees the oncologist Tues. He is still going every three months.
Doris
USA - Sunday, October 05, 2008 at 19:45:47 (MST)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, O.P.! Sorry that your car was damaged by some idiot! Rickey, great news of your good health. Still no news from J.J. That worries me.
Brenda
USA - Sunday, October 05, 2008 at 13:48:02 (MST)
Sue, Cheree's trouble all started when Charles fixed a stool for her to jump up on our bed. SHAME !!!SHAME!! on him. We never had a dog in the bed with us and we didn't when she was little. She was so little I was afraid to roll over on her. She likes it for a while then jumps down and goes into her own bed. But you know Poodles are jumpers. The jump when they run. Like gizelles.
Doris
USA - Sunday, October 05, 2008 at 09:00:04 (MST)
Marshall, I got my license at 15. That is really too young these days. Things are finally slowing down with this MaardiGras sewing, I can see the end. Lauren, my granddaughter, is getting married next Saturday evening. The budget was slim so aunts and grandmothers are doing it all. It is going to be a lot of fun. Please pray for good weather. Doris, my Daisy has loose joints in her back legs, I sure hope she doesn't have trouble in the future. She isn't a jumper. Brenda, that ANGELS EYES has worked for the staining. Her face is beautiful. I give her just a pinch once a week now. Are you using anything?
Good to hear that everyone is ok and others are on the mend. Prayers do wonders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Suzanne
USA - Sunday, October 05, 2008 at 08:41:43 (MST)
Question? Wasn't the driving age 15 in our day? I remember the Top Hat telling us "we could not come in tonight" because there was going to be a raid!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Sunday, October 05, 2008 at 04:36:01 (MST)
Happy to hear the good news about you son Larry. Our prayers are with him. I have not seen Earl lately. Rickey he usually attends the 4 P.M. Mass on Saturdays. I believe he is doing fine. Just read the Daily Advertiser (C'est Vrai) this morning and discovered a time in our past that I and some of you should remember. Mid-October 1953. I had just turned 16 and most of our friends had not. We were all at the Peacock one Saturday night dancing to Phil Comeaux and the Modernaires. Unexpectedly the Lounge was raided by the State Police. Well needless to say most of the people at our table were under age. I was the only one with a drivers license. So everyone sent their drinks to me and when the officers examined me I showed them my license and they went on their way. I think they knew some of us were under age but chose not to do anything about it. That was the worst/best experience of my High School days. That is what friendship is all about. I sure had some free drinks that night. Ha.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Saturday, October 04, 2008 at 05:46:26 (MST)
Just a brief update on Myles' surgery. As the saying goes--bad beginning good ending.The surgery scheduled for Wed. had to be put off until Thur. because of an emergency for a young child. The surgery went well and lasted 14 hours.They removed a growing mass which was rubbery and attached to nerves and the carotid artery which made things a little more delicate. He still is not responding to voice commands but does have movement. There is some swelling of the brains but that was expected. SO, he is out of the forest but still in the trees.
Your prayers have helped so please keep on praying. Thanks
Larry
Larry Miller
USA - Friday, October 03, 2008 at 13:13:07 (MST)
Rickey, so glad to hear that you are cancer free. I know you guys are getting excited about your
cruise. In Bar Harbor there was a new cruise ship coming in every other day. It is probably a great
way to travel, but for now Howard and I like to fly to our vacation destination, rent a car and drive
to places of interest during the day and then return to our hotel at the end of the day. We have had some great trips starting in 2000. We went to Jackson Hole/Yellowstone and saw the majestic Grand Teton
Mountain. Then to Baniff, Canada, Columbia Fall, Montanna, Telluride,Colo., Cannon Beach, Oregon,
Sun Valley/Ketchum, Santa Fe, N.M. and finally Bar Harbor. I love looking at our pictures........many
good memories. Be sure and take some pictures to show us of your cruise.
Patsy Franques
USA - Friday, October 03, 2008 at 12:42:37 (MST)
Has anybody heard from Larry Miller? I guess everything went well because if not we would have heard from him. Well for those of you who have signed up for the cruise we have only 63 days left. I can't wait. Gerald I haven't seen Earl Arnold at church lately. Is he still alright? It sure has beautiful weather lately. It will help the poor people who got some damage in the storm fix up. OP had a birthday last week. He turned an old 71. He said he was not going to celebrate this one. He has been working at the John McCane headquarters in Woodbridge. He told me somebody keyed his car on three sides and he will have to have it repainted. Some people are just bad. I wish someone would have seen them do it and they got caught. Doris glad things weren't worst for you. It's nice to have you back on the computer. Brenda how is the dog? I sure miss mine. Dale keeps trying to get me to buy another one but Barbara and I like all the freedom we have. If we want to go anywhere we just pick up and leave. By the wqy all my cancer is gone. Something else I can thank God for. Thanks for all the prayers.
Rickey
USA - Friday, October 03, 2008 at 06:42:28 (MST)
Patsy, happy to have you back and, the best thing is that you are a contributer to this web site. J.J., how are you doing? You were going to have some heart "work" done after your daughter got better. Have you been down to see what's left of your camp in Grand Isle? Maybe it's better that you don't go.
Brenda
USA - Thursday, October 02, 2008 at 09:40:22 (MST)
Ran into Clevland, Earl's older brother this morning and he up-dated us on Earl's condition. Look's like the infection has deminished and he will not loose a finger after all. It was a brown recluse that got him. I told his brother that Marshall will be saying Masses for him and he will convey the message.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Monday, September 29, 2008 at 11:26:37 (MST)
Larry, Howard and I will be praying for Myles also. We will be waiting to hear from you after the
surgery. Just returned from Bar Harbor, Maine. Wonderful cool weather. Went sailing on the
Margaret Todd Schooner----(151' 4-masted schooner) It was a delightful 2 hr. sail. Saw where a
storm was headed that way.........glad we got home before the bad weather started.
Patsy Franques
USA - Monday, September 29, 2008 at 11:11:32 (MST)
We will be praying, Larry. Great that he found the best place for the surgery! I know it will be successful.
Brenda
USA - Sunday, September 28, 2008 at 19:02:23 (MST)
GUYS and DOLLS
When you go through your prayer intentions,please include our son Myles who will undergo a serious operation this coming Wednesday. It is for a "MENINGIOMAS of the CAVERNOUS SINUS. Simply put ,it is a "mass"(not milignant)affecting his eye sight. It is in the area of the optic nerves and also the carotid. Because of this delicate area the surgery could last for six or more hours.It is an operation that no neurosurgeron in Laf. performs. It will be at the University of Arkanas Medical Center in Little Rock.
We thank all of you for your prayers.
Larry and Camille
Larry Miller
USA - Sunday, September 28, 2008 at 15:58:09 (MST)
Ran into Earl Arnold at Mass yesterday. He looked very thin so I asked him what was up. He was bitten by a spider on his little finger some time ago and probably left it untreated. Apparently the poison went into his blood stream and he became worse. He finally went to the doctor and they gave him sulphur drugs to combat the infection and he lost his appetite and lost considerable weight. He had to go back to the doctor and they put him in the hospital with IV's for several days. He will most probably loose his little finger where the spider bit him. He says he is doing well now but needs to gain weight. I did not think spiders could cause so much devistation to our bodies. I think Earl graduated during the summer and either before or after us. We should pray for him.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Sunday, September 28, 2008 at 07:42:36 (MST)
I'm so sorry to hear about Maugie's Mother and sorry that I did not know in time to go to the funeral. She must have lived a very long life and I know that she was a wonderful woman. I brought Sammy to the vet's yesterday because that thing on his ear seemed to have ruptured. It took three people to hold him down and they muzzled him in order to treat him. It was a non-malignant tumor. Unfortunately, I found another one on him last night and just can't put him through that any time soon.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, September 27, 2008 at 06:47:31 (MST)
Maugie Pastor's mother passed away. The obit was just in yesterday's Daily Advertiser, and her funeral Mass was today at St. Pius Church. She was a beautiful lady, and the newspaper had a wonderful long writeup about all her accomplishments. I was able to stop by at Martin & Castille this morning between appointments. Keep Maugie and their family in your prayers. They are a very close knit family and I'm sure they'll really miss their Mom, Maude (Mrs. Willie) Landry.
Henrietta
USA - Thursday, September 25, 2008 at 20:18:45 (MST)
Doris, sorry to hear that about Cheree. Sammy has something on his ear that I'm going to have to go see about. They are both so young. I wonder if these kinds of thing is common in dogs or something unusual. Wish Betty could tell us about Padre about now.
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 at 19:24:20 (MST)
Thanks Brenda for the advise. Since we still haven't celebrated our Anniversary I will sugest that we go to a movie and dinner sometimes this week.By the way Cheree started limping Sun. I brought her to the Vet today and guess what, she has to have surgery. Her little knee cap slips out of place and causes her pain and to limp.
Doris
USA - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 at 18:21:47 (MST)
John and I went to see two movies lately that we enjoyed. They were "Burn After Reading" and "Ghost Town." "Ghost Town" had some really funny scenes and I haven't laughed like that since "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 at 05:54:47 (MST)
The story here is that their daughter's boy friend was ahead of them, then their daughter (who got hit by the branches), then Mary Ann and Dickie who had not had time to get up from their chairs (as they were elderly!!)and they were crushed by the tree.
Brenda
USA - Monday, September 22, 2008 at 12:57:30 (MST)
Plus you were probably without electricity Brenda so you didn't read the entry! From people who were at the wake, I heard that the daughter was walking right behind them, and for some 'unknown' reason, she hesitated for a second, and that is why she was spared from death! They were loved by everyone and just about the whole town showed up for the wake or Mass of Christian burial.
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Monday, September 22, 2008 at 12:31:46 (MST)
Marshall, I went back and read your entry on 9/3. I thought Shirley would know Mary Ann as they were both beauties at S.L.I., but I didn't know her married name. Now, I do. I'll pass it along to people here who didn't know them. I guess no one ever expects to die with their spouses except in these tragic circumstances. By the way, they are always referred to as "an elderly couple"
Brenda
USA - Monday, September 22, 2008 at 07:12:00 (MST)
Yes Brenda...if you check my entry of Sept 03, '08...she was the sister in law of Fr. Oris Broussard. She was married to Fr. Oris's brother Dickie. Talk about 'bad luck' or 'Divine Providence', they fled Abbeville for safety and died in Baton Rouge!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Monday, September 22, 2008 at 04:54:37 (MST)
Did anyone know Mary Ann Darby at S.L.I.? She was a beauty and lived in Abberville until her death here in Baton Rouge during Gustav. She and her husband had come to stay with her daughter and son-in-law and a tree fell on the house and killed both Mary Ann and her husband. Seeing that house is making John and me consider cutting down our large oak tree in our front yard.
Brenda
USA - Sunday, September 21, 2008 at 14:07:58 (MST)
that game was so close that either team could have won. However, I think that if we had been in Tiger stadium, we would have played the whole game like the last half.
Brenda
USA - Sunday, September 21, 2008 at 10:15:57 (MST)
Is Les Miles a gambler or what! I can't figure if he is smart or lucky. What a second half the TEAM had.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Sunday, September 21, 2008 at 09:11:04 (MST)
Suzanne you are so right! These types of games are for the young at heart! I don't see how the coaches survive! GEAUX Tigers!!!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Sunday, September 21, 2008 at 04:43:30 (MST)
GO TIGERS!!!!!!! Games like this are not good for my blood pressure. Doris, I'm so glad that things are back to normal again.
Suzanne
USA - Saturday, September 20, 2008 at 20:22:41 (MST)
Great news, Doris!
Brenda
USA - Saturday, September 20, 2008 at 14:55:05 (MST)
Well surprise, surprise. We have power and everything that goes with it. TV,phone,and internet. Just as the weather was starting to get warm today.
Doris
USA - Friday, September 19, 2008 at 16:47:15 (MST)
HEY Y'ALL I am still kicking!!!!! We are all just fine. I still don't have electricty, no phone and hardly any cell phone. But my two son's just got power yesterday so I am over at Chuck's house. No one had any damage on their houses. God has had His hand on us,because the weather has been beautiful and cool here. It kind of been fun. We have gotten to meet all of our neighbors down the street. We had a house that had a generator so theirs was the coffee house. Last night someone had their grill on the end of their driveway and everyone brought over meat and cooked there. Anyway now 90% of the Woodlands is with power and guess who is in the 10%. We are managing just fine. All of our years of camping has trained us for this. And living in the woods like we do really seems like we are camping now. Ten big trees fell on our street, but miraculasly none fell on a house. Our comunication is bad. We have cable phones so no phone and the cell phones are not working good. Lots and Lots of trees down in the Woodlands. But we are all O.K.!!!!!!I guess it will be another week before we are suppose to have power so I won't be able to talk to you again until them.
Doris
USA - Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 10:09:14 (MST)
For Gustav we ran to Alexandria. If flooded. We stayed here for Ike. It flooded; but not in the house. Grand Isle?, Who knows? They will not let us on the island to find out. We lived with a generator until the power came on four days ago. We did not have internet until the stock market crashed yesterday. All of my family is safe and sound. Power has been spotty and the internet is clunky. We have had water; but we must boil it to drink it. I stocked up with 40 gallons of bottled water before the storms. We are doing well. I thought that my vision was fading; but I cleaned my glasses and all it well. Did every one get though the storms O.K.
J. J. Erny <judgeerny@moblietel.com>
Larose, La USA - Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 03:49:47 (MST)
Has anyone heard from Doris who lives in the Woodlands, Texas?? Thanks for the information about the two bad hurricanes that hit Louisiana years ago. It's scary what's happening now-a-days!!
Brenda
USA - Monday, September 15, 2008 at 06:42:17 (MST)
Rickey, I just learned that Pat Huval (class of 54) died this afternoon. He had been hospitalized for a week or so. You may want to post it on the Cathedral/Carmel 55 website. He was a genuine gentleman.
Dale Gaudet
O. P. Ditch <opditch@gmail.com>
Woodbridge, VA USA - Monday, September 15, 2008 at 03:36:35 (MST)
Hurricane Camille was August 15-16 1969. It was second most destructive ever. It was a Cat 5 storm with gust winds up to 230 mph.
larry miller
Laf, La USA - Sunday, September 14, 2008 at 17:17:13 (MST)
As I recall Brenda hurricane Camille hit when we were in the USAF at Eglin AFB in the early 60's. So approximately 5 years after Audrey.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Sunday, September 14, 2008 at 13:42:20 (MST)
In today's Morning Advocate, there was a very informative article about what a 3-day emergency food supply actually means. They listed things I hadn't thought of, but, after the crowds thin out, I'm going to get most of these things for the future. They listed: single-serving cereal packages, crackers, granola bars, canned fruit, canned juice, packaged drink mixes, raisins, apple sauce in small containers, small puddings, canned vegetables, canned soups or chili, tuna, canned chicken, beef jerky, peanut butter, canned milk, shelf-stable cheese and milk, jars of baby food, hard candy, and pet food. Gerald, was Hurricane Audrey before or after Camile? I never realized that you were involved with the rescue effort after the storm!! I know you won't ever forget it.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, September 13, 2008 at 16:06:56 (MST)
Brenda, when we lost electricity for Lili, those large water-filled gallons from the freezer came in handy converting our refrigerator to an old-fashioned "ice box." Agree, it's good to stock up year round for the hurricane season, avoiding the pre-hurricane crowds and, sometimes, empty shelves. It seems if the U.S. can put astronauts on the moon, surely it could dissipate hurricanes in the Gulf before they cause so much damage. Our engineer son today told me that hurricanes are necessary to keep the earth cool, otherwise we'd really have global warming. Hope everyone is safe and dry.
Henrietta
USA - Saturday, September 13, 2008 at 14:43:00 (MST)
Brenda, I don't remember hurricanes when we were younger either. Talked to my son in the
Woodlands and they are without electricity but they seemed to be in good spirits. They all slept
in the bedroom closet just to be safe. My daughter-in-law's parents live in Delcambre. They had
extensive damage 3 years ago for Rita and today they are waiting to get back to Delcambre to see
what the flood waters have done this time. I feel for them. As for Lafayette, just wind and rain.......
nothing too serious. Hope you all stay dry and well........leaving for BarHarbor on Tuesday. Guess we
will heard from Doris soon.
Patsy Franques
USA - Saturday, September 13, 2008 at 09:34:42 (MST)
June 1957, Audrey is a far back as I can remember. I had taken employment with the DOTD during my summer break. We had to go to Pecan Island to survey the back ridge Rd. (Hwy. 82) today. Those poor people were traped there with hardly no warning about what was coming. There were so many snakes we had to carry a .22 pistol and a michette to make our way through the devistation. The Red Cross was all over helping and would feed us every day. What a horrible experience one that I will never forget.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Saturday, September 13, 2008 at 09:28:27 (MST)
Do any of you remember hurricanes as children? I know my grandchildren won't be forgetting these experiences and yet, I don't remember any hurricanes before Camille and I think I was grown when it happened.
Brenda
USA - Saturday, September 13, 2008 at 08:45:14 (MST)
Ike was a non event in Lafayette. A little wind, rain and small branches down. My son and I monitored the water levels at his camp in Pecan Island during the night. Thank God his peak rise was 10.00 MSL at midnight and the floor of his split level camp sits at 12.00 MSL. We had already taken all the downstairs equipment home for Gustav. If anyone is interested in the site it is www.co-ops.nos.noaa.gov. It shows the tidal surges for several places along the Texas and Louisiana coast. The one nearest his camp is Freshwater canal locks Sta. No. 8766072. It was amazing being able to see the water level rise every 2 hours as the storm passed.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Saturday, September 13, 2008 at 06:47:17 (MST)
I just got a phone call from my sister who lives in Houston....they didn't even lose electricity! So that gives me hope for you guys Doris! Brenda I hope things are getting back to normal for you and your family! Getting ready to offer Mass of Thanksgiving for all of you.
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Saturday, September 13, 2008 at 06:21:38 (MST)
Doris, I can't think of what you all are going to go through! If you lose your electricity for a length of time, you will need lots of ice chests and non-perishable food, not to mention batteries, flashlights and radios. I found a great place for ice and not too many people knew about it. You just put $1.50 in the slot and out comes a bag of 16 lbs. of ice or, for more money, you get a much larger amount of loose ice in your ice chest or garbage bag. You will need lots of quarters! I divided milk into 4 smaller jars so that I could take out just one at a time. When you live in Louisiana, you'd better prepare all year long for hurricanes. I had put large gallons filled with water in the freezers to get them to freeze really hard. It takes the freezer longer to completely defrost when those ice-filled containers are in them, but they didn't last 11 days!!! I had boiled some eggs before the storm and suggested the grandchildren dye them when they had nothing to do later. Putting tiny Cherrie into a bowl of water when she is too hot works wonders. If only I could have come up with some way to cool us at night. There were generators all over the neighborhood, but John didn't want to fool with one. I think my family will be stocking up on visqueen and fence stakes and power saws for the future. Those were things that they needed and the lines were terrible. I don't know if you can get a blue tarp, if you don't need it right away, but they would be VERY valuable to have on hand. By the way, I don't know how our ancestors did it. It's hard to read by candle light!
Brenda
USA - Thursday, September 11, 2008 at 19:46:20 (MST)
Thanks Marshall, we will need the prayers. You know even if we had decided to go anywhere, there are 5 million people in Houston and I think they are all driving on I-45. We will probably go to Mitch's house. He has an inner room with no windows and a two story house and no big trees around his house. Chuck already has a lot of people at his house. Our house is one story and we have a huge tree in our front yard. Mitch seems to think we have nothing to worry about. I will let you know how he feels AFTER this storm. Unless we are lucky and we don't have much like Rita. You never know what these storms will do.
Doris
USA - Thursday, September 11, 2008 at 19:19:07 (MST)
Hey Doris! CNN just broke in on the political form to announce that Ike changed course and will make a direct hit on Houston!!! Hope you guys bunker down. You will be in our prayers!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Thursday, September 11, 2008 at 18:48:22 (MST)
Well Mitch and his family is here boarding up our windows. I cooked a big shrimp and crab gumbo this afternoon so they will stay for dinner. We will probably go spend the night with them tomorrow night.
Doris
USA - Thursday, September 11, 2008 at 16:39:32 (MST)
We now have our utilities and have moved back home. The house smells a little, but all is well. Just in time for whatever Ike has in store for us. Hope our large oak in the front yard can remain standing as it has been there a long time and deserves to live out its life, giving us a lot of shade and pleasure. Has anyone heard from J.J. after Gustav? I hope no news is good news.
Brenda
USA - Thursday, September 11, 2008 at 14:04:41 (MST)
Sorry to read about all your difficulty Brenda. This too shall pass. Doris when hurricane Gustav made land fall a weak high pressure had littlle impact prior to landfall, but as the storm moved inland, the ridge slowed Gustav, leading to heavy rains. We were in them coming back from Arkansas. Ike on the other hand, has a stronger high pressure ridge and will force the storm westward. Probable area of eventual landfall is predicted to be in the middle of the Texas coast compared to Gustav that hit the upper east coast of Louisiana.
Gerald Reaux <ggrpsr@aol.com>
USA - Thursday, September 11, 2008 at 06:26:36 (MST)
Well, it looks like we will get some of the storm here. It still depends on that front that is coming through from the north west. If the front is moving slow it will go to the west of us, if it goes, as predicted, it will go in at Port Lavaca, then turn to the east and we will get it or if the front is moving fast, I am afraid it will go more to Louisiana. The bad thing the storm is moving fast. Doesn't give us much time to even think, much less get things together. Tiffany called and said we could go to Louisiana. I am waiting for one of the boys here to call to see what they are doing.
Doris
USA - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 17:23:34 (MST)
Nope, we still don't have any electricity! We have moved into an apartment and spent our first cool night last night--still couldn't sleep! Today John and I had our annual physicals and then drove back to see our neighborhood. It's so depressing because we can't see any signs of utilities in the whole place. Only one daughter's house has electricity so she cooks for about 20 people every night. It is comforting to see that Ike is not hitting any of you, at least I hope not. Have a good trip, Patsy.
Brenda
USA - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 12:09:55 (MST)
Looks like the hurricane is going toward Corpus Christi...........really hate to think of it hitting
anyone, but La. folks are breathing a lot better. Our area looked liked a war zone........clean up is
going well. Hope Brenda has her electricity back, but if it was on she would probably be on the Web
site. Doris, I will be praying for your friend's child. My daughter has been visiting from Austin.......
having a great time. We leave for BARHARBOR on Tuesday. Hope things stay quiet while we are gone.
Patsy Franques
USA - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 10:20:20 (MST)
Well, lets hope Ike moves fast once it is out in the gulf, Marshall. Then it might miss us. I guess Brenda still doesn't have electricity, because she would let us know I am sure. Yes, that is the worst part of these storms. AFTER the storm has gone.
Doris
USA - Tuesday, September 09, 2008 at 17:45:28 (MST)
WOW! I didn't realize how hard some areas of LA were hit by Gustav! I saw on National News just this morning that people in B.R. have to wait in line for days...in 90+ degree heat...to get food stamps for their hurricane ration! I got an e.mail from my brother in Opelousas...he just got his electicity back this past Sunday! It looks like all of you will be spared from Ike...even you Doris!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Tuesday, September 09, 2008 at 10:51:12 (MST)
Doris the weather here is great. In fact it is too good! We really need rain. Tampa is the dividing line for Tropical and Sub-tropical FL....so they get a lot more rain than we do. The fronts come from the West go down into the Gulf then dip down to Tampa and head up the East coast! That leaves us high and dry down south. With hurricane Ike, it looks like we might get a little more rain...depending as always, what happens after it leaves Cuba and enters into the Gulf. Let's hope it just falls apart after it goes thru the mountains of Cuba. Keep us in your prayers...Hurricanes have not been known read the computer models!!!
Marshall <larr1710@comcast.net>
Venice, FL USA - Monday, September 08, 2008 at 05:12:30 (MST)
Yes Marshall, and Charles is always pulling for the Saints, and my son-in-law, who lives in Tampa is pulling for the Bucs. How is the weather down your way?
Jared is still in Baton Rouge with the National Guard. He is helping guard the special needs evacuees who are being housed on the LSU campus. It seems like it is Texas' turn for a
